Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Green, Asst. Surgeon First Corps of Cadets, spoke of "Camp Life" dealing especially with that in the 70's and '90's. He spoke from the medical standpoint, and showed the great changes which have been effected in the personnel and discipline of the miltia. He affirmed that the sanitary conditions of the camps and the personal hygiene of the men had been decidedly improved. One of the most important results of the changed conditions seemed to him the more general acknowledgement by the militia of the value of strict discipline...
Though at first the prospects were very encouraging, the work of the team has lately been rather poor. The backs and interference seem slow in starting and do not strike the line with any force. However, the personnel of the team is quite strong and their showing would seem to depend on their success in getting well together in the team play...
ITHACA, N. Y., May 22.- Cornell put up a first-class game against the University of Chicago today, but was defeated. Young gave five bases on balls and the visitors made two of their runs on errors. Cornell's re-organized team worked well together and its personnel is now doubtless determined for the season...
...Change of system would improve the personnel of our state legislatures.- (a) Present system directly induces nominations of unfit men for legislature. (1) Bosses nominate such men to help themselves to Senate: Pub. Op. XIV, 393 (Jan. 28, 1893).- (b) Present system prevents defeat of unfit candidates when nomiated.- (1) People dare not vote against them for fear of losing senatorship for their party: Atlantic, LVIII, p, 229 (Aug. 1891); Mitchell in Cong. Rec. April...
...graduate manager of Harvard athletics, has just returned from a conference with the Princeton baseball management on the question of eligibility rules. The only arrangement which he could make was that each college should make and interpret its own rules. Each captain will be obliged, in making up the personnel of his team, to send to the other captain a signed statement to the effect that, to his knowledge, his men are all eligible. Princeton also agreed to adopt Harvard's rule as to dropped men, provided her athletic advisors would agree to it. The Princeton rules at present allow...