Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next week's schedule will bring with it still another change in training for the men of the Corps, when half of the drill hour will be given over to gallery practice. The ranges under the Stadium will be used for this phase of the training, as was done last spring, and all the men will receive ample opportunity to use the sub-calibre rifles. This work will perform a highly important part in preparing the men in Military Science 1 for the range work at Wakefield in May. In addition to the rifle practice, the work with bayonets will...
...fact that the Topographical sections of Military Science 1, instead of continuing their laboratory work with relief maps, will begin to receive practical instruction in mapmaking. Four sections will be formed and will meet one afternoon in the week at Holden Chapel, where equipment will be distributed for use in sketching. The grounds of the Astronomical Laboratory will be used for next week's sketching trip. Later on, excursions will be made to Fresh Pond and other points suitable for contour work...
...time the Library was built in 1914-15, the furniture and arrangements were temporarily installed until use should make clear what furnishings would be best adapted to the needs. The present instalment is permanent, and will be completed tomorrow...
...over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution of the war; nearly twenty billion dollars has been alloted to the various executive departments for their use during the current fiscal year. Yet in comparison with this unparalleled out-pouring of funds, the results have been small. Without in any way minimizing the magnitude of our war achievements, it is conservative to say that they have been incommensurate with the money available for their attainment...
...congratulated on the optimistic tone of the March number. The note is struck in Mr. Wister's sketch of the late Evert Jansen Wendell, in which the great-hearted "perpetual undergraduate" is depicted wart and all. The secret of Wendell's personality was an abiding youthfulness or, to use Mr. Wister's phrase, an innocence that "never shrank from its full original stature." Like all youths he was swept ahead by enthusiasms, sometimes to the detriment of social conventions. Athletics, work with the boys of New York, club life, enlarging his theatre collection, amateur dramatics, music, his final trip...