Word: experts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate program of this school are, in conformity to the best prevailing practice, straight courses in civil, mechanical engineering, etc., intended to fit young graduates to do well such work as will be expected of them according to the best standards of their chosen professions. Expert special knowledge is a great asset to any engineer, but to be of value it must be based on sufficient sound training in the fundamentals. Therefore specialized studies are planned for graduates; and the opportunities for such work will be unusual and varied. Emphasis on fundamentals should not be mistaken to mean that...
...claimed to be proficient. A series of examination questions were prepared for each trade, covering specific technical points with which only a man of that trade could be expected to be familiar. He was also given certain practical problems and was classified by means of his score as expert, apprentice, etc., and placed accordingly in the Army organization...
...academic year 1916-17 Professor Sabine went to the University of Paris as Exchange Professor. It was there in France that he performed services for the Allies in connection with the War which were of incalculable value. An expert on sound, he was asked by the French Government to experiment with sounding devices. In this connection, he made experimental flights in aeroplanes and went below the sea on a French submarine. He also invented a most successful sounding device for locating artillery, which has been used to a large extent by the Allied Armies with excellent results...
...Military Science 1 men qualified as expert riflemen and only one man in Military Science 2, J. Sise '21, with a total of 172, was able to attain that grade. Nine members of the Battalion were classed as sharpshooters, of whom five were from M Company, J. S. Baker '19 and S. S. Jordan '21 with 156, I. Rosenfield '18 with 155, D. T. W. McCord '21 with 148, and W. G. Swigert '20 with 145. The first two of the above were at the head of the elementary course men at the range last week...
...good officer has not only a wide and accurate general knowledge, but must be especially expert in one or two important branches of the military art. A number of R. O. T. C. men who are going to the June camp will have an excellent chance at Camp Devens to become specialists. They will be instructed in the Hebert system of physical training, and in addition, either grenade throwing or the British bayonet manual. As they will be given an intensive course in connection with the O. T. C. camp there is no doubt that this instruction will be thorough...