Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...newspaper statements be true, Syracuse University has unenviably distinguished itself of being guilty of the most palpable act of injustice that has come to light since war demands merged the student and the soldier into a single individual. Briefly, Syracuse is giving academic credit to commissioned officers, while returning non-coms and privates receive no credit at all for their army work. For bitterly attacking such an indefensible course by the college authorities a student editor of the "Daily Orange" was expelled with an official farewell of scurrilous epithets...
...given of the life of Theodore Roosevelt as an undergraduate. It is a fitting tribute to the Rooseveltian qualities of leadership. Captain Andre Morize--now Professor Morize--has written concerning the role and duty of the student--the conception should be the same as for the role of the soldier. Harvard men will listen with eagerness to the words of Professor Morize. President Mclaurin of Technology issues a call for democratic, universal military training so long as war is a possibility...
...number of special problems have engaged the attention of the psychologists, such as the examination of aviators, the selection and training of telegraphers, the emotional fitness of the soldier, and the general factors of military education. In the Navy the psychologist was able to render valuable service in the selection and training of gunners, listeners, and lookouts, and in the distribution and assignment of men in the gun-fire squad...
...Better 'Ole" purports to represent a faithful picture of Tommy Atkins as made famous through Captain Bairns-father's cartoons. Therefore its chief characteristic naturally is humor, which, blended with some of the softer feelings which find such remarkable expression in the private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award...
...bring out, by practising a few of the simpler and more generally useful forms of military writing, and by reading certain military essays and stories of unquestioned merit as literature, some of the fundamental qualities,--especially terseness and precision,--that are as important for the civilian as for the soldier...