Word: bagley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute announced today a series of public lectures, of which Mr. Hodge's is the first. The lectures are scheduled as follows: Nov. 14, "China's Back Door," by Schuyler Cammann, for several years a teacher in China; Nov. 28, "Aerial Photographic Mapping," by Lieutenant Colonel James W. Bagley; Dec. 12, "Travels in Northwestern Canada," by P. G. Downes; and Dec. 19, "Biological Observations in the Dutch East Indies," by Charles T. Brues, professor of Entomology...
Colonel James W. Bagley, lecturer on Aerophotography, announced yesterday that two main changes have taken place at the Institute of Geographical Exploration as the new semester commences: William K. Coburn, Jr. has replaced Thomas C. McCaleb as instructor in Engineering, and there has been a considerable increase in the number of army officers taking graduate courses...
This year there are six commissioned officers taking graduate courses in Engineering here. Said Bagley, "This is the first time as far as I know that so large a number have come back to Harvard. I consider this quite significant, for it means that Harvard has been put on the list of institutions to which young officers will be sent regularly hereafter. About fifteen officers are taking similar courses...
According to Bagley, McCaleb has left Harvard to take up a position in a manufacturing concern. There his technical engineering ability should stand him in good stead. While at the University McCaleb was noted for his burglar alarm and "electric eye" inventions. Coburn, who replaces McCaleb, will be spending his first year at Harvard...
From Traditionalist Bagley: In your opinion, should our public schools prepare boys and girls for adult responsibilities through systematic training in such subjects as reading, writing, arithmetic, history and English, requiring mastery of such subjects, and, when necessary, stressing discipline and obedience, with informal learning recognized but regarded as supplementary rather than central...