The art of war cannot be learned in a day, and there must be a naturalaptitude for military duties.
Women are the same in kind as men, and have the same aptitudeor want of aptitude for medicine or gymnastic or war, but in a less degree.
Will he not also require natural aptitude for his calling?
He had what was called under the old regime, the double hand, that is to say, an equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or a squadron or a battalion as an officer.
This mental average of servicemen was a unit problem, for at all times the total number of white individuals who scored in low-aptitude categories IV and V greatly outnumbered black individuals in those categories.
Army to discharge these men, pointing out that a recent increase in pay for enlisted men together with the continuing need for recruits with greater aptitude for learning would make the policy palatable to the Congress and the public.
One persisting occupational difference was the tendency to assign a relatively large percentage of Negroes with high aptitudes to "other technical" skills and those of low aptitude to service occupations.
As long as the Army accepted all reenlistments regardless of aptitude and halted black enlistments when black strength exceeded 10 percent, it would deny enlistment to many qualified Negroes.
Even when the complexities of mental aptitude requirements and use of draftees versus enlistees (p.
Conversely, the corps had thousands of Negroes with the mental aptitude to serve in regular combat units and a small but significant number capable of becoming officers.
Segregation and not mental aptitude was the key to the poor performance of the large black units in World War II.
After recruit training the men would be divided into groups according to aptitude and experience and would undergo advanced instruction before assignment.
Large, all-black combat units submerged able soldiers in a sea of men with low aptitudeand inadequate training.
The connection between the size of the lungs, and the aptitude of animals to fatten, will be more apparent from the fact, that the carbon and hydrogen which are abstracted, constitute two of the only three elements of fat.
The quality of their mutton was equal, while their aptitudeto fatten was decidedly superior to their longer-legged contemporaries.
She had a great natural aptitude for teaching, and was governessing when Stuart fell in love with her.
Then he had himself a certain aptitude for languages and dialects.
The drawings showed, at least, that natural aptitude which may be genius and may be that imitation of genius which is difficult to distinguish from the real gift.
Many painters with no more natural aptitude than Armorel have risen to be Royal Academicians.
Lombroso[199] remarks: ‘It has been observed that the aptitude for music has been displayed almost involuntarily and unexpectedly among many sufferers from hypochondria and mania, and even among the really insane.
Business for which one feels a special aptitude is not generally repugnant.
Naturally and instinctively they evince a great aptitude for learning all sorts of handiwork.
As a rational being she may continue to evince a natural desire and aptitude for intellectual progress and to carry it on by home study according to her taste and position in life.
It is, however, creditable to the native artisans to say that they evince a great aptitude for learning and imitating what they see.
These Mino-birds, I may remark, in passing, have a singular aptitude for acquiring phrases.
By his own act of cool, nonchalant, unconsidered courage in a crisis, he had, it seemed, definitely proved himself to possess a special aptitude in all branches of the business of printer and stationer.
He was a beginner at tennis, and a very awkward one, having little aptitude for games, and being now inelastic in the muscles.
Also, he meant to present his conduct to his father in the light of an enterprising and fearless action showing a marked aptitude for affairs.
Teaching was in his view a special gift of the individual, which depended on the aptitudefor getting hold of the pupil's mind, and enlisting his interest in the subject.
Cumberland next endeavours, by an enlarged analysis of the mental and bodily structure of mankind, to evince their aptitude for the social virtues, that is, for the general benevolence which is the primary law of nature.
A man's profession does not necessarily coincide with his natural aptitude or with his predominant desire.
This is an aptitude very contrary to his nature, and of which a man is scarcely capable, except when he makes part of a crowd.
Of the characteristics peculiar to crowds, they display in particular but slight aptitude for reasoning, the absence of the critical spirit, irritability, credulity, and simplicity.
Before entering on their professional studies, the cadet is first sent on a cruise to test his aptitude for sea-service.
The Masters of Navigation Schools should display great intelligence and aptitude for teaching, should be intimately acquainted with the best methods of instruction, and be zealous in the performance of their duties.
But we do not believe in the physical degeneracy, or the lack of military aptitude and spirit of the American people--at least to the extent asserted to exist by many writers on the subject.
Especially should natural ability and manifest aptitude for acquiring and applying knowledge take precedence of mere scholastic finish and readiness of answer to former problems.
A system of pupil teachers, selected on account of aptitude for teaching, and a willingness to adopt the profession of schoolmaster as their career in life, has been recently introduced.
Those are selected who have manifested the greatest military aptitudeand respect for discipline in their own conduct; although cœteris paribus superior standing in study would be decisive.
The inhabitants of Britain possessed, again in common with those of Gaul, a singular aptitude to understand and learn quickly.
Neither have these men any aptitude for light repartee; they do not play, they kill; their jests fell the adversary to the ground.
They give proof of a singular precision and subtlety of mind, and a great aptitude for philosophic speculation.
Ben dipped his oars with dexterous aptitude and shot under the shadow of the trees.
Augusta's voice, on the contrary, rang clearly through the room, a prepared speech upon the aptitude of women and their field of labor.
They had the making in them of excellent soldiers, and showed an aptitude which delighted him for all sorts of exercises and feats of arms.
His fondness for books and aptitude for learning were remarkable; while his frank, sensitive, and sweet temper gained the affection of all around him.
His attention was much directed also to physiology, pathology, and natural history, with an aptitude and efficiency abundantly proved by the merits of his published works, which we need not enumerate.
Having displayed musical aptitude at a very early age, he was placed in the Royal Academy of Music.
Barezzi, he was sent to Milan, where he was refused admission to the Conservatory, on the ground that he showed "no special aptitude for music!
He has read the existing statute to which this is supplementary, and he thinks that the Committee ought to consider the aptitude of this bill to carry out the declared purpose.
Why, Sir, I agree with him that such aptitude ought to exist, but do not forget that the bill has been before the Senate now nearly four years.
He is said to have shown a specialaptitude for arithmetic, and it is believed that owing to the good reports of his progress, Mr. Skottowe paid for his schooling.
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