Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Second, military training is very beneficial to the man personally in that it develops him physically and gives him invaluable mental training by the self-control, discipline and instantaneous response to orders and commands...
...regards the military situation, the new organization was urgently needed. The War Department has secured for it self a group of men whom it can train as it wills and upon whom it can call at any time for needed officer material. The advantages of a standardized system of training in addition to a centralized system of control mean a great increase in our military efficiency. Fundamentally sound in theory, designed to meet the needs of the colleges as well as, of the nation, the S. A. T. C. should prove one of the most successful ventures...
...responsible for the success of them all. If he knows his own job, and knows it thoroughly, backwards and upside down, as he should, his platoon will be a machine that can overcome the disciplined hosts of the Kaiser. But if he lacks that absolute knowledge he will lack self-confidence and character, and his men, reflecting the spirit of their leader, will be a futile tool against the disciplined...
...runs in every phase of our national life. There have been many mistakes and much confusion, but we may safely say that the achievements of our nation in the year just passed, outstrips those effected by any other country in a similar period of time. It is no self-pride or narrow national glorification to render tribute to the always accelerating accomplishments of our people...
...Reverend Charles Wood, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, Washington, D. C., will give the third of the William Belden Noble Lectures in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, tonight at 8 o'clock. His subject will be, "Aims That End in Self, and Endless Aims...