Word: training
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the hour for most of us is to learn to be good officers that we may train good privates. We should be faithful to that work, however slow, which we have...
...University fencing team, composes of Captain W. H. Russell '18, R. G. Crimmins '19, E. R. Gay '19 and C. M. Hodges '19, and accompanied by Coach Lesiabay and Manager G. H. Code '18 left the South Station on the 1 o'clock train yesterday afternoon to compete is the intercollegiate fencing champion ships held under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Fencers' Association in the Hotel Astor, New York City, this evening and tomorrow afternoon and evening...
Coach "Pooch" Donovan and Coach Morrill will continue to train the track squad regardless of the international situation. At present it is planned to hold interclass, intercompany and even informal meets with neighboring institutions, if the intercollegiate schedule is abandoned. In the meantime, while waiting for the nation to act, track work will continue as usual...
...organization known as "The Motor-cycle Minute-Men of America," has been formed. Its purpose is to enroll, instruct and train the motorcyclists of America so that they will be fitted for active service on short notice. Their chief duty will be that of dispatch riding and as in case of war there will be an immediate need of men trained in this work, all those who are enrolled would be called for active service...
...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...