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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Formerly officers were promoted and selected for special schools by seniority, alphabetically, and through the personal judgment of their superiors. In order to base promotion more upon actual merit than upon chance judgment and personal bias, a rating scale was formed on the principle of ranking officers of one's acquaintance according to certain characteristics, giving each individual so many points according to whether he was best, medium, or worst, and using them as a scale for selection of the men to be promoted. In this way one had concrete and definite examples or standards rather than vague notions...
...clearly visualize the activities of any actual department should one be constituted. It would still have to consider the choice between a system of opportunity and a system of compulsion. At the same time we feel that such an alliance between the academic and the athletic functions would remove the ground for some of the criticisms to which the present system is open. For example it has been suggested that the existing arrangement fosters an undesirable spirit of professionalism, of training a few men to a very high degree that they might go through a successful season. This, as Dean...
...actual enrollment is still uncertain, but 800 men enrolled before vacation, and it is expected that about 200 more will return to college from service in time to resume their work during this term. Probably many others will come back to college before the end of January...
...placing of the colleges on a war basis, and the interruptions caused by the influenza epidemic, have made this an abnormal year in the life of the University. For the first time there was an actual suspension of practically all college activities. The University seemed less like itself than ever before in its history...
...direction of Maj. Harding. Here he is tried out by the authorities to make sure of his ability to drive an automobile, and then he is put in training for about a month. During the period of training he is taught the mechanics of automobile construction and is given actual practice in repairing them. After a month of training he is sent across with a unit and begins active service in about the same status as a private in the army...