Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates from this unit will be assigned to the Senior Basic Course which consists of a regular artillery course of officers. Such subjects will be studied as mounted and unmounted drill, equitation, signaling, military courtesy, minor tactics, target and gallery practice with pistols, sub-calibre and service practice with artillery...
...became a searching of documents; literature became philology. Shakespeare and Chaucer were no more important than the dullest Middle-English dialect. The result was that the field of learning was divided into innumerable "courses" and "half courses," the Theory of Photography counting as much for a degree as the basic principles of biology. A systematic, organic grouping of studies was difficult. An American university education became a thing of shreds and patches. The utmost...