Word: generally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...city's representative citizens and outlined his idea. Mrs. W. H. Dunbar of 64 Highland street was appointed chairman of the committee, and she has been in charge since that time. Prominent men and women have been appointed to conduct a canvass of each of the eight wards, and General Bancroft is acting as chairman of the canvassing committees...
...maxim, "Lenteur est beaute," manifestly is not a favorite with our present-day American universities. Just now the watchword with them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that institution, advocates a general acceleration of the courses--and not only that; but an all-the-year-round session. Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university would resemble...
...questions and on the subject of prohibition. He is the fourth of the series of distinguished speakers who have appeared before the Graduate students this term. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former ambassador to the Netherlands, Ian Hay Beith, British soldier-author, and the Hon. Albert Halstead, ex-consul-general to Austria, have given the previous talks, all of which have had for a subject some phase of the world conflict...
...very first symptoms of such a situation arising, the Corporation and Faculty should take radical measures,--measures to safe-guard the University, and at the same time to help the country. I think that there might be formed a military college with a three-years' course on the same general lines as West Point. I would admit boys of the age of sixteen, physically fit, without examination, merely dropping them on their failing to maintain a proper standard in their stud- ies. During their three years in college I should have them under strict military discipline, with a prescribed military...
...training committee of the General Staff, War College Division, with a major-general at its head as director of training and special staff corps representatives, has been designated as the centre of instruction of troops in the United States and the direct representative of the Chief of Staff. Associated with the director of training and training committee are the British and French military attaches, Generals Maclachlan and Vignal, and officer specialists and advisers of both Allied Armies. The functions of the training committee are as follows: To maintain close relations with expeditionary forces abroad and with troops undergoing training...