Word: contact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...high as it was in 1917. In addition, opening enlistments to preparatory and high school graduates who pass their June entrance examinations will not only give those men an opportunity to spend a useful six weeks of military preparation, but will also bring them in close and intimate contact with the University which they are to enter in the fall...
...news competition brings new in close contact with prominent figures in public life and gives a knowledge of all phases of University life. Photographic candidates will gain experience that will be valuable in warfare...
...special competition for 1921 will furnish business training, contact with prominent business men and an opportunity for candidates to present their arguments logically. Further details of the competition will be announced at the first meeting, or may be obtained from the business manager...
...passing the time training and hardening up, occasionally getting actual experience where 'make-believe' no longer holds. I personally am to be the aerial observer of an infantry contact machine, a duty that to me is as interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing...
...army and relief to the needy among the civil population. My own time was devoted largely to a study of the vital statistics of the army and an 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...