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Word: systemic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Special emphasis is being laid now on accuracy and sureness rather than on speed or individual brilliancy. Yesterday the two offense lines were time and again sent down the ice with the puck to train them in the art of team-work around which the Winsor system of hockey play has been built. Since the resumption of practice this week the squad has improved considerably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY SQUAD RESTS TO 31ST | 12/20/1919 | See Source »

...There is one great advantage in such a form of training which, to my mind, is overlooked by most people. The military standpoint monopolizes the field of vision. They fail to perceive the fact that through this system of training the Government would come into contact with men of every class in the country. And to the boys who have no opportunity for education, to the mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR SCHNEIDER BELIEVES UNIVERSAL TRAINING COMING | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

...Prussian spirit of military autocracy which is feared, there will be little likelihood of any move in that direction on the Continent such a regime developed only because of tradition, of the all-pervading system of militarism established, and the autocratic government already in control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR SCHNEIDER BELIEVES UNIVERSAL TRAINING COMING | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

Conditions are and would be the reverse in the United States. Instead of a militaristic tradition steeped in imperialism we look back on a democratic past, little troubled by international complications. In place of a system of compulsory military service extending over a period of three years we would have a shorter period founded on a different basis. Where in Germany, that was, and in France men were seized by the Government for three years and compelled to live the life of a professional soldier, the United States would adopt a system more of physical training. Herein, I think lies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR SCHNEIDER BELIEVES UNIVERSAL TRAINING COMING | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

...three months men will be gathered into great camps in the various sections of the country. During this time it will be the chief aim of the instruction to better the physical condition of the men and instil in them the rudiments of fighting upon which the whole complicated system of training might be built in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR SCHNEIDER BELIEVES UNIVERSAL TRAINING COMING | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

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