Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges throughout the country the final ceremony of induction was merely the culmination of a week of organization and military and academic preparation. Virtually every institution has completely revised its curriculum to conform to the requirements of the War Department, and within the next few days it is expected that the new order of things will be working smoothly...
...days of the college exodus to Princeton are no more; the war has made intercollegiate games merely an incident in the curriculum of a college year in the stead of an important event for which the entire undergraduate body used to plan many weeks in advance. The last time the college went to Princeton in any numbers was in the fall of 1915 to watch Mahan's team give the Palmer Stadium its baptism of Harvard football. Five hundred undergraduates filled the flagship of the Fall River Fleet for one sleepless night and then enjoyed the Great White...
...purpose, the freshness of mental and physical effort, necessary to the task. The Americans were already too absorbed with their own work as teachers to be qualified also as good pupils. Moreover, the advanced schools, under these conditions, could not be organized with the completeness and extent of curriculum essential to the development of anything like full co-ordination...
Princeton has seen far and deep in the conception of a new military curriculum which the college has now announced it will offer. In a sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort...
...more nature advantages which Princeton now brings within reach of, those young men who desire them and who will undertake the courses of study and discipline necessary to their attainment. As preparation for service in this war, and as extension of America's military establishment for contingencies unforeseen, the curriculum offered by Princeton 18 of serious worth. Boston Transcript...