Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...event of war not being declared they will be required to make up what College work they have missed while in training at Newport, in order to receive credit in their courses. The men are at present receiving intensive instruction in signaling, telegraphy, navigation and the mechanism and use of guns...
...contents, the latest Advocate is creditable but not remarkable. Once at least it ought to have been more carefully edited; the indefensible use of human in the sense of "human being" is allowed to stand in the first story-- a fault the more conspicuous, because the idiomatic phrase, "neither man nor beast" would so naturally occur to one in place of the ugly "neither beast nor human." But in general, the paper, both in its prose and its verse, shows the right feeling for style. If the authors had more to say than they have here, evidently they would know...
...circular is being sent to all graduates and undergraduates of the University in Cambridge by Professor R. M. Johnston, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, urging them to use their special abilities in case of war rather than enlist as a private. This leaflet will to some extent take the place of the census that has been taken in other colleges. It advises all men to endeavor to qualify as officers rather than enlist as privates. Men of special training are to use that training in case of war. The circular enumerated some of the branches in which expert...
...instruction will be given by officers of the Army, by military experts who know the requirements which will be demanded from the motorcyclists and can best give them the necessary instruction and training, and by those men who are in close touch with the largest developments in the use of motorcycles in modern warfare and who have had experience in actual service...
...first time this year the Stadium track was in use. Although it is still a little soft, it is better than the other track, and the former will be used from now on. Only the straightaway and the track along the western side of the bowl are in proper condition as yet, but a few more days of this warm weather or a warm rain will get the frost out of the ground, so that the entire track can be put into shape...