Word: worded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...modern industrial world consists of two classes of articles: essentials and luxuries. Before the war the latter were very common. They are now becoming more scarce, as nations realize that they must economize and live on the bare necessaries of existence. The war has made economy the watch-word of human actions. The luxuries and non-essentials of society must be curtailed so that raw materials will not be drawn away from more useful channels of war production and so that labor will not be engaged in producing articles of no immediate value. The complexity of modern life...
Princeton has seen far and deep in the conception of a new military curriculum which the college has now announced it will offer. In a sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort...
CAMP DEVENS, AYER, MASS., MAY 15.--Captain A. H. Bright '19 yesterday took charge of the special detail of the R. O. T. C. which is stationed at Camp Devens for intensive training in bayonet fighting and grenades, according to word received late last evening from Ayer. Most of the men are now with H Company of the 302d Infantry. First Sergeant N. L. Harris '19, who had been in charge of the detail, is now quartered with E Company of the 303d Infantry...
...Word was received late yesterday from First Sergeant N. L. Harris '19, in charge of the Devens Detail, stating that the men had arrived at the cantonment and had been well taken care of. The bayonet men are quartered with Company E of the 303d Infantry, while those who are training as grenade specialists are assigned to Company H of the 302d Infantry. Both classes of men started training yesterday afternoon, the grenadiers using dummy grenades...
...words came as a shock to us; we have been fed up with so many compliments on the excellence of every maneuver we execute that we did not know what to make of this man who openly told us we were distinctly bad. Not that the University minds being told that it has faults; it does not. But what aroused us was the fact that each and every member of the R. O. T. C. has known right along that things were in a bad way. We have known it, we have discussed it, and then we have blundered along...