Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special order of Major-General Barnett, Commandant of the Marine Corps, the members of the University Marine Unit will be honorably discharged on Monday, December 16, for the convenience of the government. The only other course open to the men is that they may go to Paris Island, South Carolina, as regular enlisted men, with no promises for commission. The urgent need for officers in the line and aviation branches of the Marine Corps no longer exists...
...Association of American Universities held its twentieth annual meeting Wednesday and Thursday as the guest of the University. The first general session was held in the Faculty Room of University Hall on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, the topic being "The Organization and International Relationships of Universities and Colleges." Ten or fifteen minute addresses were given by Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge; President Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale; Professor John Joly, of Trinity College, University of Dublin; and Sir Henry Miers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. This was followed...
Dean James R. Angell, of the University of Chicago, was unavoidably detained, but his paper on the subject was read. It analyzed the necessity for the physical, social, and economic training of a nation. A general discussion followed, which was initiated by Donald J. Cowling, president of the Association of American Colleges. Several other speaker followed...
...general discussions on Thursday were held at the Medical School. The topic considered in the morning was "The Future Place of the Humanities in Education." The principal speakers were Miss Caroline Spurgeon, professor in Bedford College, University of London; Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton; Dr. Edward Mewburn Walker, Of Queen's College Oxford; and professor Kirkby F. Smith, of Johns Hopkins University. Dean and Mrs. Edsall of the Medical School entertained the delegates at luncheon. The afternoon session met to consider "Problems Presented by the Student Army Training Corps, and the Future Military Training of Students." It was addressed...
Captain C. E. Dunn, commander of the First Battalion, was formerly attached to the 26th Division, and was therefore specially invited to participate in the celebration given for Major-General Edwards, the commander of that unit...