Word: train
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...train from Plattsburg is due in Boston at 7 o'clock in the morning, and the Seniors will not have to return until about 5 o'clock that evening. This makes it possible for all members of the Class who are at Plattsburg to be here for the major part of the program on June...
This course aims to train men for cost inspection in factories which have contracts with the Government. Candidates for admission should have training and experience in accounting which shall include a thorough knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping...
...Americans have hitherto believed that the fundamental purpose of education is not only to furnish useful information, but also to train and discipline the mind to its highest power. Consequently, those studies which experience has shown to be the most serviceable for this end have been, and should be, the fundamental subjects in any course of study. This may be an erroneous belief and if it should prove to be the case, such a course of study ought to be discarded. If not, the best manner of teaching them must be found, and instruction maintained to its full extent...
...first of the nautical training schools for the instruction of officers of the new merchant marine has been opened in the Students' Astronomical Laboratory of the University. Fourteen similar schools will be established at different parts along the Atlantic coast to recruit and train the 10,000 officers needed for the merchant ships to be built...
President Lowell has received word from Plattsburg to the effect that all Seniors of the University at the Training Camp will be allowed a leave of absence of 24 hours in order that they may attend the Class Day exercises on Tuesday, June 19. This will add materially to the success of the exercises, since many of the class officers, including the three Marshals, will be present by this special arrangement. In order that the men may catch an early train back to Plattsburg, the Stadium exercises on Tuesday afternoon have been put ahead an hour, and will be held...