Word: experts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arises in this same connection. Ought not this policy to be extended to students in all branches of applied science and indeed to advanced students of pure science as well? There are no fixed limits between applied science and engineering if the latter term is broadly construed. The chemical expert may not call himself an engineer but in these days of chlorine gas, thermite bombs and other such instruments of carnage he is quite as indispensable on the battlefront as the builder of roads and bridges. All applied science, moreover, depends on pure science. It is in this latter field...
...back to become athletic slackers when they were in college because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary now. Why should they sacrifice their lives if their lack of fitness makes the sacrifice not worth while...
...other colleges. A rifle team's value is one of the many details which the war has brought to the fore. It is now easy to conceive what the worth of a general taking up of the sport throughout the country would be. It would mean scores of expert shots just so much further along in their training for combat. Though rifle teams and gun clubs use small calibre weapons, it is with these that the soldier is given his first and fundamental training, "gallery practice." Expertness with a sub-calibre rifle on a college rifle team would...
...what the value of close order drill is. It seems so useless as preparation for battle, the result is that men become careless about the whole matter. This is a very unfortunate mistake, as close order drill is absolutely essential to proper training of troops, and the more expert a man is in this work, the better and more desirable soldier he will make. In the British army, a body of troops begins squad drill as soon as it is sent back for the "long rest." It inculcates discipline, and tends to a perfection and unity of organization that...
...first importance, Harvard with its infantry R. O. T. C., Yale with its artillery corps, the only one of its kind in the country, and Tech. with its innumerable Government schools offering all sorts of training. In addition the faculties of all three institutions have been drawn on for expert advice and services and their laboratories freely used...