Word: experts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Target practice, too, combines sport with experience, although the latter is its best feature. Sub-calibre rifles and short ranges cannot make anyone an expert, but they develop a true eye, a steady hand and a reliable trigger-squeeze. Shooting Boches requires more skill than can be acquired on Soldiers Field, yet beginners may learn the rudiments, and experienced marksmen may improve their aim. The student who practises with rifle or bayonet furthers his own military prospects, and, at the same time, obtains exercise and recreation...
...register will be continued at the H. A. A. today. There is no expense connected with membership in the class, to which every Freshman is eligible. An excellent opportunity to obtain a well-balanced physical development and to learn the fundamental principles of the various sports is provided. Expert instruction in swimming, wrestling, fencing and boxing will be given the members of the class under the direction...
...along the Atlantic Coast and the military service of many of our students on the Mexican Border. Several colleges retarded their opening because of the epidemic. It is a satisfaction to report that the decision of the Harvard authorities to open on time, made after careful deliberation and upon expert advice, was vindicated. Only one student contracted poliomyelitis throughout the college year, and it is probable that he did not contract the disease in Cambridge. Some 45 men were allowed to register late because they were held in the militia by the difficulty with Mexico. In nearly every instance their...
...first wrestling practice of the season will be held at the Randolph Gymnasium this afternoon at 3 o'clock when all members of the University interested in the sport are to report. In spite of the informal nature of University wrestling this winter, the Athletic Association has obtained expert coaching for the squad. Coach Sam Anderson, ex-world's welterweight champion, and instructor of University wrestling teams for several seasons, will have full direction of the candidates. A special room has been entirely refitted for the use of wrestlers. The mats, moreover, have been so arranged that a large number...
...exercise of first-rate engineering skill. Indeed, the whole machinery of offence and defence requires for its development and upkeep a vast amount of scientific knowledge, and success or failure may well fall to one side or the other according to the relative strength or weakness of the expert scientific knowledge of the two great groups of combatants. A few examples taken at random from this field may serve the present purpose. The British Minister of Munitions stat- ed not long ago that the war would be won by ammonium nitrate. What he meant to emphasize was the fact that...