Annual Report of the President to the Trustees with Accompanying Documents |
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Page 149 - That our student soldiers may see the issues, is of immediate consequence. But the war and its issues will be the absorbing theme of generations to come. To the thoughtful, therefore, the course affords the opportunity to introduce into our education a liberalizing force which will give to the generations to come a common background of ideas and commonly understood standards of judgment.
Page 177 - In tenui labor; at tenuis non gloria, si quem Numina laeva sinunt auditque vocatus Apollo. Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda, Quo neque sit ventis aditus (nam pabula venti...
Page 298 - ... vocational training section of the corps for technician training of military value. (e) He may be transferred to a cantonment for duty with troops as a private. 4. Similar sorting and reassignment of the men will be made at periodical intervals, as the requirements of the service demand. It can not be now definitely stated how long a particular student will remain at college. This will depend on the requirements of the mobilization and the age group to which he belongs.
Page 298 - Army Training Corps will, for the present, be established at secondary schools, but it is hoped to provide at an early date for the extension of military instruction in such schools. The secondary schools are urged to intensify their instruction so that young men seventeen and eighteen years old may be qualified to enter college as promptly as possible. 6. There will be both a collegiate section and vocational section of the Students
Page 299 - The primary purpose of the Students' Army Training Corps is to utilize the executive and teaching personnel and the physical equipment of the educational institutions to assist In the training of our new armies.
Page 204 - To the President of the University SIR: I have the honor of submitting the following report for the academic year 1918-1919.
Page 298 - Act, instead of by enlistment as previously contemplated. The student, by voluntary induction, becomes a soldier in the United States Army, uniformed, subject to military discipline and with the pay of a private. They will simultaneously be placed on full active duty and contracts will be made as soon as possible, with the colleges for the housing, subsistence and instruction of the student soldiers.
Page 297 - ... active service in the field by June, 1919. The only exceptions will be certain students engaged in technical studies of military value, eg, medicine, engineering and chemistry. Under these conditions it is obvious that schools and colleges for young men within the age limits of the new law, cannot continue to operate as under peace conditions. Fundamental changes must be made in college and school practices in order to adapt them to effective service in this emergency. The following statements...
Page 221 - The statutes of the university define extension teaching as instruction given -by university officers and under the administrative supervision and control of the university, either away from the university buildings or at the university, for the benefit of students unable to attend the regular courses of instruction.
Page 24 - ... research. This criticism is unfair and ought not to go longer unanswered. Of great teachers there are not very many in a generation, and nothing is more certain than that such are born and not made. Of good teachers there are, on the other hand, a fair supply. These are the men and women who, by reason of sound if sometimes partial knowledge, orderly-mindedness, skill in simple and clear presentation, and a gift of sympathy, are able to stimulate youth to study and to think. To find fault with...