Word: train
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...down as Saco, Me., doubtless, and whether he has a good or a poor play, his following will turn out to see him triumph over the villains and kiss the prettiest girl in the show. The out-of-town trade may miss the kiss in catching the late train home, for it's the last thing on the program; but that's the play-wright's fault...
...officers chosen for service abroad nearly all knew French, and this it was which, other things being equal, determined their selection. In the future the same will doubtless hold true. Thus any man who for sees a possibility, however slight, of his entering active service should begin early to train himself in this fundamental part of his preparation. For languages cannot be learned in a few hours of intense application; it is rather by a slow and unconscious process of assimilation that they are mastered. And for this, nothing is quite so valuable as the reading of foreign newspapers...
...following January his commission as captain was confirmed but owing to ill health he was sent to the interior to train recruits from the 1917 class for his regiment. Later he accompanied them to the Verdun Army School and while there last July, was ordered to report to Col. Azan in Boston, to aid in the training of American soldiers. He was at once assigned by Col. Azan to the "Iron Battalion" of Plattsburgers then in Cambridge, and later...
...even greater number of members of the University are giving, instead of an hour or so a day, their whole time to the work. Fifteen hundred men have been enrolled at the radio school in the course which the University, in conjunction with the Navy Department, has opened to train men as wireless operators. In eight short weeks the newest member of the class will be ready for active duty at sea, on one of the ships of our navy or of our merchant fleet. Though their names are not in the University register, they are members of the University...
...yesterday's meeting, Coach Haines spoke briefly to the candidates, telling the plans for fall competitions as far as they are yet formed. "War has shown athletes to be the most desirable officers," he said, "and therefore it is our duty to train more of them." Of all the athletic activities offered this fall by the University, there can be no doubt that crew is the most beneficial, and the most interesting...