Word: successful
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Across the waters the great lack of officers, so far as the English army is concerned, has been the reason for their non-success in obtaining a victory in any theatre of operations. With these facts in view, the War Department has devised a system, now about to become a law, which will permit us to carry out the proper training of the officer-aspirant with units of the Regular Army, and thus supplement the extensive instruction given in the Reserve Officers Training Corps Units at our colleges and universities. For instance, at Harvard University Reserve Officers' Training Corps Unit...
Preparedness Week ended officially Saturday night. While the total enrolment established as a goal was not attained, yet enough enthusiasm was aroused and enough enlistments secured to justify the movement as a success. Considerably over a hundred new men were enrolled in one branch or the other. A hundred men may be equivalent to a hundred officers in time of war, enough to command three regiments. But the vital result of the week is not reflected in the number of enlistments; rather in the number of men interested. Preparedness Week has officially ceased, but there is no reason why enlistments...
...final choice of the scholar is left in the hands of a Committee of Selection. Great care has been taken in the constitution of these committees, as it has been felt that on the wise and impartial exercise of their judgement depends more than upon anything else the full success of the scheme. These committees take into account different qualities of the candidates, such as, and in this they were directed by the founder, literary and scholastic attainments, love of outdoor sports, high moral character, and desire to serve in public affairs...
...tramp of a thousand men marching today in the Harvard Regiment answered many a challenge. Have college students, more and more favored by circumstance, become so lost in seeking personal comfort and private success that they have no time for unselfish service? The regiment's regular ranks and its well-ordered marching told of many hours devoted to drill in the midst of busy weeks in winter and spring. From the day of their enlistment to their final review this morning the men have worked conscientiously to serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which...
...daily papers, and in a few periodicals there are reviews of every weeks developments in the war zone by a military expert. These articles give one in a condensed form all the important strategic moves which have been officially reported during the week, and also the probable success or failure of the offensive campaign in question. A careful reading of the weekly reviews as a supplement to the daily headlines ought to prevent anyone from being totally ignorant of the course...