Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also the most unmilitary. Letters from our men at Yaphank emphasize the fact that the Harvard men know the game better than the draftees, but that many others make more efficient soldiers because they are better disciplined. Lack of discipline is the fundamental weakness of our system. The time to reorganize our military morale is now. Soon it will be too late...
...fuel conservation, as I understand, is in the hands of Mr. Storrow, and even though he may advocate "early to bed and late to rise"--"a surely ill-advised principle,"--so much as I dislike as a liberty-loving American, to be regulated under a rapidly tending Prussianistic system. I am nevertheless satisfied to leave it all to Mr. Storrow until he is proved incompetent...
...developed the military airplane to a remarkable extent, and in so doing has built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom...
...weather-knowledge a matter which has affected several important battles during the last two years. Professor Atwood will deal with the question of reading maps in such a way that the military importance of the terrain and its sub-strata can be recognized. In all the work, the metric system will be used...
What the President has called on Secretary Wilson to do is tore-form his department and align it with the needs of the army, the navy, the nation. The new establishment will include a countrywide system of labor exchanges, all under one direction; a plan for the adequate training of workers, as agency to direct the supply of labor to the industries essential to the public welfare, instruments for the adjustment of disputes and machinery to safeguard workers at their tasks and in their homes...