Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...raising the money necessary for this work the Committee on Camp Libraries of the American Library Association proposed that each State, county, and city, or other Community, should subscribe a total equal to five per cent. of its population, and the plan has been enthusiastically received. New York is expected to show its customary practical generosity; the Atlanta Rotary Club has promised that its home city shall not fall behind; Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have each established goals of $50,000; Seattle has asked to be put down for $25,000, and Spokane, Wash., will contribute $10,000, and Portland...
Thus at the entrance of the United States into the world war much was heard about the failure of American college because of turning out men who would be of little avail in such a struggle. The continuance of the war would only prove how useless colleges were as institutions in time of national peril. It is all very well for us to loll around reading our classics or admiring our art, but when men are out killing one another that institution which is the upholder of the Sabine Farm and its accoutrements is decidedly a back number...
...teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those who were best in the field of war and brought them into an atmosphere where the idea of thorough...
...summer. In the end, however, the credit for the results obtained by the Reserve Officers Training Corps belongs to President Lowell, whose foresight in asking the French Government on the day when diplomatic relations were broken off with Germany to send officers to this country to train prospective American platoon leaders and captains not only gave the Corps the benefit of the only modern instruction in the country at the time, but also brought the value of this form of training to the attention of the Government
...Coolidge will give ten lectures on "The Historical Antecedents of the War"; Colonel Azan and other officers will describe phases of actual warfare in Europe; Professor Gay will discuss the economic aspects of the war in four lectures; Professor Lord and Dr. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; and Professor A. B. Hart, with Professor MacDonald, of Brown University, and others, will consider the more strictly national aspect. A fifth quiz-hour will be added for those who wish to take the course for credit; and a feature will be made of a large collection of books...