Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Probably no group of men realize more fully than those who have been to Plattsburg how much training is required to make an efficient army officer, and what slight progress can be made through the medium of the Battalion under consideration. Nor does the average man of no such experience as that of Plattsburg expect to attain to any large degree of military preparedness in the necessarily limited time which can be given to the drill and instruction of the large group of men now signed up. In fact I am convinced that for many of us the actual military...
...proper goal. The cry that there are practical barriers to all socialistic propositions must be buried. University and socialist literature must be published throughout the land; such news as the University of Wisconsin in several of its departments has recently undertaken. The public school system and the slight democraticism of one branch of the national government, the senate, are steps towards socialism...
...Army and Navy football teams play their annual game at the Polo Grounds, New York, today. The Army eleven is a slight favorite. Both teams held secret practice at the Polo Grounds yesterday...
...regular practice yesterday afternoon and a light signal drill and kicking practice today will finish the work prior to the game with the Yale Freshmen tomorrow. Coach Saltonstall did not let his men undertake a hard scrimmage yesterday for the team is in such a condition that injuries, however, slight, would prove costly...
...when the University crews will meet on New Haven Harbor. The last meeting of the two colleges was on July 14, 1895, when Columbia was victorious. The race will be one and seven-eighths miles in length and all indications point to its being close although Yale is a slight favorite because of veterans and its longer time of practice this fall...