Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cause that has contributed very much to our backwardness in aeronautics is the fact that not a single officer in the navy above the rank of lieutenant-commander has ever controlled a flying machine in the air even as a pupil, and a similar condition exists in the army...
...before yesterday six French officers sailed from Bordeaux for Cambridge on a mission somewhat similar--to train the members of the R. O. T. C. in all phases of modern trench warfare. Military science has been revolutionized since the days of the Spanish-American war, our last war. Tactics count a great deal more, strategy much less. It is all important that our soldiers should know how to handle the new implements of warfare and understand their use. A platoon leader today has to do more than judge the range for his men and lead them over a ploughed field...
Practically all of the colleges of the East have taken action similar to that of the University in abolishing intercollegiate contests for the remainder of the year. The list includes Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington University and Bowdoin, and action by Williams and the University of Pennsylvania is expected within a few days. The Board of Stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association have called off the Poughkeepsie regatta scheduled for June...
...complete and final arrangements have as yet been given out by the War Department in regard to the appointment, on a large scale, of officers in the Reserve Corps. It is probable, however, that a plan somewhat similar to that in vogue in England may be adopted. There all aspirants for commissions are given, for a period of three months, the same drill that is given to the enlisted recruits, and then those who demonstrate that they will make good officers, are sent to a cadet school for six or seven months of intensive training. Men who have completed...
...power intrusted to him on March 26 by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, issued the accompanying statement calling off all formal athletics at the University. The Dean has recently conferred with Professor Conwin of Yale and Dean McClenahan, of Princeton, who were acting in a similar capacity for their respective universities, and a joint decision to abolish intercollegiate athletics when war should be declared was reached. It is understood that they have already taken action on the matter. Mr. Fred W. Moore '93, the graduate treasurer of athletics, is this morning attending a meeting of delegates from...