Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Within the last fortnight Yale and Princeton have unofficially come out for intercollegiate athletics this spring. Harvard has yet to make known her position, but the vast majority of undergraduates are certainly heart and soul for some form of intercollegiate games. It has been well proved that to keep an interest in a sport it is necessary to meet rivals of a similar status and playing under similar eligibility rules. Harvard unofficially is unquestionably for the resumption of intercollegiate games...
Volumes might be written on the scientific principles and methods employed in the great work of the Army and Medical Corps of the world, and at least as much space would be needed to describe with any completeness the vast body of scientific knowledge and skill used in the engineering feats that are witnessed almost daily when a drive is in progress. To move forward the vast armies with which we are familiar in the war conditions of today and to move them forward, as is, of course, necessary, with proper speed and with proper support, is in itself...
...inspection of the sani- tary conditions and the ambulance and hospital service at the Russian front. This brought me in contact with General Korniloff and other Russian officers and with the officers of the Russian Red Cross, and the Union of Zempsvos. We were amazed at the vast amount of relief work being done by these and other organizations in Russia. We in America scarcely realized that there have been four million sick and wounded soldiers in Russia since the beginning of the war. I learned that 2,700,000 of them have passed through the hospitals in Moscow alone...
...often we have wondered why Germany, who exercised so vast a sway in the marts and the cloisters of the world before the war, should have cast aside the method of gradual but sure triumph for the ruthless one of gun and sword...
...present military organizations, but we should immediately establish a system such as has been adopted in Switzerland and Austria. The United States has taken on a contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course we can accomplish our purpose with our present military establishments, but we could do it much better and fully as quickly under the Swiss system. We could raise an army of 500,000 men in seven months and subsequent armies of equal size...