Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large majority favorable to the adoption of such a system, 17 deans and professors stating emphatically their approval of the step, while five come out as opposed to it. Not all of the 17 believe in a military course at the university, but all agree as to its general need and the opportunities for physical development that it offers. Two of the professors who oppose it admit its value physically...
...year in the facilities it offers for study in specialized fields of business activity. The revised list of seventeen specialized courses for the second semester, which begins this week, shows opportunity for such work in varied lines open to the first year students who have been taking the more general courses during the first half-year. Two courses, "Factory Practice" and "Water Transportation," are being given for the first time. The former will comprise a large amount of actual field work and investigation. Three courses, "Latin-American Trade Problems," "Railroad Accounting and Statistics" and "Public Utilities Operation" will...
...half year, and in the latter two. In connection with the specialization in lumbering, the School has made arrangements with a lumbering camp to have students spend four weeks in the summer preceding the fall opening observing timber and studying and milling operations. This is in line with the general policy of the School which is to have the students spend the summers in practical work...
...complete list of courses in specialized fields which open this week is as follows: accounting, "Accounting Practice" and "Industrial Accounting"; financial management, "Investments" and "Financial Management of Railroad Companies"; transportation, "Railroad Accounting and Statistics" and "Water Transportation"; insurance, "Fire Insurance Engineering"; "Life Insurance Agency Methods" and "Actuarial Practice"; lumbering, "General Lumbering" and "Lumber Problems"; law, "Law Relating to Railroad Rate Making"; industrial management, "Factory Practice"; Chamber of Commerce Work and Methods"; local public utilities, "Public Utilities Operation"; and foreign trade, "Latin American Trade Problems...
...proposed system of universal military training realize that not one of our foreign wars was undertaken in self-defence, and that our country has never been attacked, even when its navy was almost a minus quantity? Again, shall we disregard the testimony of such military experts as General Erasmus Weaver, who has assured the House Committee on Military Affairs that our coast defences are inferior to none in the world, or shall we lose eight of our system of mines, submarines and fortifications, which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost unnecessary...