Word: rigidness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going to have losses on the sea; we are going to have losses in battle; our communities are going to be subjected to the rigid discipline of multiplied personal griefs scattered all through the community, and we are going to search the cause of those back to their foundation, and our feelings are going to be torn and our nerves made raw. There is a place for physicians of public opinion to exercise a curative impulse. The young men who are in our colleges, who go to their homes from our colleges and make up a large part...
...Department has but few dirigibles in commission, none of which are of the rigid type, like the Zeppelins. The indications are, however, that the number will soon be greatly increased...
...have here as efficient instruction and rigid discipline as can be found anywhere, with the added advantage of good food and comfortable sleeping quarters. Two of the French officers will give instruction in the co-operation of the artillery with the infantry in active service. This co-ordination forms a most important factor in modern warfare. So much of the instruction being given here is equally necessary in the artillery that the benefit of the camp to Yale men will be incalculable...
With the swearing in yesterday of 19 members of the University for service in the Enlisted Signal Reserve Corps, work on the organization of a University company in the Signal Corps was begun. The men accepted were first given a rigid physical examination and then took an oath to serve the country in this branch of the service, the enrolment being for a term of four years, but in time of peace only a nominal amount of training a year will be necessary...
...argument. But merit is not the criterion of election. It is rather type. In every one of the big clubs, it is the effort of those in charge of the election to secure men of the same stamp as themselves and their club-mates. This makes a rigid system, changing little from year to year--the personnel must conform to a certain type or be rejected. The smaller clubs strive to secure men of a specific character providing there is any chance for choice after the big clubs have completed their weeding process...