Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be a meeting of the Faculty this afternoon to make arrangements for the opening of the Reserve Officers Training Corps to further enlistment. If the Faculty authorizes the increase and there is no reason to suppose that they will not, the students who join will be accepted only after a thorough physical examination. The new recruits will be formed into provisional companies, which will drill separately for such a number of hours a week as will enable them to catch up to the companies already formed. When this is accomplished the recruits will be taken into...
...elsewhere, and is very necessary for the manufacture of explosives. In this connection it might be said that the trade in iodine, an invaluable commodity for surgical purposes, is entirely controlled by the iodine Combination of the nitrate companies. Because of her nitrate and iodine, if for no other reason, an understanding with Chile is not only, desirable but essential...
...answer to a question as to the relative value of men trained for officers under the system of the R. O. T. C. and under the system at West Point, Captain Shannon answered that there was no reason why the method here should not develop some officers fully as capable as the best graduated from West Point. "What an officer needs," he said, "is not necessarily so much book learning, but a training that makes immediate and unquestioning obedience second nature to him. A man so trained will usually make a good leader and officer. At West Point the idea...
...Prose." So far as my own experience goes, it is unique in either academic or professional journalism. Yet I should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly and elaborately into conventional fiction...
...service participate in athletics. "These diversions could serve to lighten the tension and relieve the public mind. If the time comes when the depression of war is great, such a general participation on the part of those who are available to enter athletic competitions and who, for one reason or another, cannot be actively serviceable to the country, would have a tendency to relieve this depression and inspire courage again...