Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should like--and it also seems historically desirable--that Harvard men should have a first chance of coming to Emmanuel if they wish. Our population now is so much occupied with war work that service is difficult unless we are able to have a continuous stream of such officers--that is to say, it would be well if the rooms set apart could be occupied continuously during term-time by relays of officers from the United States...
...gradually coming to learn that war, although more frightful than ever, has not lost all its chivalry. During these many months of artillery and trenching, battle has appeared dreary work without a touch of romance; it has seemed a monotonnous series of incidents no one of which was interesting in itself. One branch of service, however, has lighted up the picture. It is a field where only heroes can serve with success and where heroes can show the stuff they are made of. This field is aviation...
...idea of romance in war is closely associated with single combat and justly so. There is something splendid about two individuals facing one another; certainly much more than in hordes of men joining battle. There are surely many heroic encounters taking place in the infantry, but we cannot hear of these so easily. Aviation at present is a service where single combat must be the feature. Our peculiar interest in it may be the result of its infancy, for the new holds much charm for us. And yet trench fighting does not thrill us in the same way, in spite...
...would be entirely impracticable within the limits of space assigned to me to deal even in the most sketchy way with the applications of science in the conduct of the present war. That war more than any other in history is a war between nations as a whole, and not merely between small sections of different nations. It is a war the issue of which depends on the effectiveness for war-like ends of practically every adult amongst the warring groups. Science and its applications enter deeply into almost every phase of modern industry, and as at the moment war...
...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 a scientific achievement of a high order demanding at every phase the exercise of first-rate engineering skill. Indeed, the whole machinery of offence and defence requires...