Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There will be, therefore, next year about 50 men who will still want naval training. Added to this number we hope that there will be many Freshmen. We, therefore, plan first to obtain a boat of sufficient size to enable us to go to sea in the afternoon and teach the boys the practical side of navigation...
Although this system will disturb the companies every two weeks by breaking up their organization, it will give training that could not be had in any other manner, and will teach the entire body of cadets, instead of a few dozen officers, the work of a responsible position...
...when we know that men in this simple way are learning to save themselves, in so far as they may, from terrible slaughter in battles, and learning that they may teach others to be saved, the game takes on a new meaning. It is not a boys' game played by boys with wooden rifles and paper hats who simulate the excitement of war. It is a man's game, and learning to play it may be worth in time our own poor lives, and the greater success of our cause...
That was a valiant hope. But it was sadly untrue to what history and wisdom might teach us of the courses of revolutions. Freed from that social order and that political burden which had bound them from immemorial time, it was inevitable that the Russian people should grow exuberant with the intoxication of first liberty. Much as we, much as the Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more...
...them, and the institutions of the East, West, North and South are preparing themselves. If the Government wants sites for training camps, campuses are at its disposal. A dozen or more technical schools have offered the unrestricted use of their scientific laboratories for experiments; farming experts stand prepared to teach the people to live more cheaply and to conserve the nation's resources; forty state colleges which have for years had military training as a dominant feature of their curricula, will furnish officers to instruct raw recruits; and the women's colleges stand ready to carry out the Red Cross...