Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
...coast defense plan which the patrol hopes to have established as a part of our preparedness program provides for dividing the Atlantic coast line into sections of convenient length, probably a hundred miles each, each section having a central station equipped with aeroplane hangars, repair stations, wireless stations, and observatories. These stations are to be used as bases for seaplanes which will patrol regular beats fifty miles out from shore. In this way the outer line of our coast defense will be extended fifty miles out into the Atlantic...
...scope of the course in Military Science and Tactics 1. Certain students, apparently, have been under the impression that the three hours set aside each week would be the only requirements of the course. As a matter of fact, in addition to these three hours, covering lectures, section work and drill, considerable outside reading and study will be necessary. Students cannot expect to receive credit for a full course toward a degree without the application which Harvard normally requires for the successful completion of any course. So far as the course in Military Science and Tactics 1 is concerned...
...Section No. 1 of the American Ambulance Field Service, which I joined last March, was unusually fortunate in seeing service in the two historic regions of France, the valley of the Somme and Verdun. We were stationed in the Somme valley for nearly four months, when we were suddenly sent to Verdun, where we worked close to the city for three weeks and then back about 25 miles from the front for another three weeks...
...section had been ordered to a point out beyond a certain now very famous town to within about three kilometers of the first lines, and they went in convey with our chief leading, as he always does...