Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should like to be sure that those who through your columns recently petitioned that "Military English" be not required in English A fully understand our programme. We are mindful of the fact that English A must confine itself to the needs of the majority; and we have not the time or the inclination, even if we have the necessary knowledge, to go into the details of military "paper work." All we propose is, for the next three weeks, to bring out, by practising a few of the simpler and more generally useful forms of military writing, and by reading certain...
...total requirement for the three and a half weeks period under discussion, and that it will not retard the primary study of the principles of English composition. We would suggest a conference between the distressed members of the class and the Department, in order that each may understand the other and a satisfactory understanding be reached...
...that the organization is coming to a close, the question of how much academic value should be attached to it has been raised. We understand that it is to count as only one-sixth of a course toward the degrees of the men who have been working...
...between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more closely than ever before to the civilized nations of the earth, and that it will be wise to impart to the young knowledge of the history, customs, and ideas of peoples other than their own. Returning soldiers will perhaps render...
...April 22 copies of plans for the first combat exercises will be given out to all members of Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 in order that they may prepare themselves thoroughly to understand their duties for the following day. All men of the other sections in Military Science will go over the plans in class before the exercises takes place. For the practical training which is to come twice a week on the various maneuver grounds, the regiment will be divided each time so that the men of one battalion will be engaged in repairing the Fresh Pond sector...