Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...associates were ready to begin their instruction; but arrangements for the Barre Camp which was to be the culmination of three months' intensive training had to be carried through Captain James A. Shannon, 11th Cavalry, U. S. A., took up the work as commanding officer and carried the difficult task to a most successful conclusion. The problem was not a simple one, even for an efficient army officer. The men were not enlisted, but were voluntarily present for instruction. Discipline depended largely on their good will, and instruction had to combine the old fundamentals of the training of an American...
...Columbia all dormitories have been converted into barracks and the registration there will probably be the cause of the largest registration the university ever had. Besides the regular military work, Columbia has set itself the task of training skilled engineers in a two-year course. The new course will take up all branches of engineering and will be open to students with the customary high school education. Naturally it will run through the four quarters of the year. Under the present arrangements the new engineers will be given a special status with the regular...
...years makes it incumbent upon me to voice my dissent. No one who has followed the work as closely as I have can fail to realize in how great a measure its success is due to the untiring devotion of the volunteer instructors who have taken up the task which many of them would have been glad to avoid, and carried it forward with conspicuously good results. They have given unsparingly of their time and strength, and it is highly unfortunate that the group as a whole should be pilloried for the slight mistakes which one or two may have...
...represented by such a man, Campbell is doing his part to avenge the deaths of his classmates, Meeker, Adams and Ely, as well as the loss of Chadwick and Cheney and other Harvard aviators. Campbell is but the advance guard of thousands of other university men whose task it is to make the air an uncomfortable place for German flyers. He has made a good start toward a glorious career, and the CRIMSON wishes him the best of luck in future encounters with the Hun. It is men like him upon whom we rely to gain the aerial supremacy...
...fact remains that in their jesting way the men of service have expressed a basic truth which we all must come to realize sooner or later. The war will be long and the war will be hard. There is but one way to shorten the conflict or make the task set before us less difficult. We must prepare...