Word: types
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Three types of men have long been accustomed to scoff at the value of colleges in what they like to regard as the real things of life. First there is the self-made man whose marvelous success so biases his personal opinions that he is unable to think except in terms of self. Then comes the trained specialist whose whole education has been limited to a certain field and who has completely disregarded whatever was irrelevant to his chosen province. It is true this fellow will admit that one may get a start in the right direction at college...
...highest type of warrior is not the highest type of man. In taking up the sword for a just cause no man who is true to his education is taking it up joyously or with love of the work he has to do. He is undertaking a work which must be finished, which must be quickly and well finished that it be forever finished. In so doing he will fight all the more bravely and wisely...
...Department has but few dirigibles in commission, none of which are of the rigid type, like the Zeppelins. The indications are, however, that the number will soon be greatly increased...
...addition to the two machine guns which have been presented to the corps, a third gun of the same type has been procured through the activity of P. P. Gould of Company A. With the support of a large subscription from the first battalion it was possible to obtain from the Colt Company a weapon of the model of 1917. This gun was tried out on the range yesterday afternoon at 300 yards and proved to be entirely suitable. Before the companies leave Wakefield each man will have received instruction in the assembling and dissembling, the loading, firing and practical...
...there is much difference between this masque by Percy MacKaye and one of the Elizabethan masques by Ben Jonson. There will be 5,000 people in the cast of "Caliban"; the stage will be built on three levels; the scenic and lighting effects will be of the most artistic type; and the music will be of a character beautifully adapted to the theme and dramatic action...