Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor is the right of any red-blooded American citizen." This statement coming, as it does, from one of our instructors and a specialist on such matters, is worthy of the serious attention of all members of the University. Is Mr. Laski sure this statement applies to everyone? Or does it exclude such people as soldiers and sailors, and other employees of the executive branch of government...
...every 1,000 men who were examined for the army, 271 were unfit for military service. In the 26th Division we had many cases of flat feet which made the men useless for hard military work. At the advice of one of my colonels who was an orthopedic specialist, these men were organized into a special training batalion. In eight weeks, 80 per cent of these supposedly unfit men were made physically sound and able to go on the hardest 20 mile hikes. This was the first of the 'development battalions' which later did so much to improve the physique...
...excess of this quality that prevented him from gaining the scholarly reputation to which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard...
...made extensive experiments upon the relative power of matter to absorb sound, and was a specialist in the acoustics of buildings and rooms...
...higher but less vital activities of our civilization. While the college man cannot compete with the technically-trained man in the technical processes of production, he probably has a higher place in their ultimate direction. The man with the broad understanding of industry and human polity, not the specialist in one productive process, will devise the sweeping industrial reforms we need...