Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposal for a military department does not include the abandonment of the group system, and its requirement that the student obtain a liberal cultural education. It would simply mean that men would have an opportunity to study and even concentrate in advanced military subjects, and that graduate students could make themselves experts in them. There would be no prescription, and no general exodus from other studies; and the courses could be made difficult enough to frighten away all but the serious-intentioned. The proposal is not to militarize the University any more than the existence of a chemical department...
Nothing in higher education is more important than the efficient use of the lecture hour. It is then that a large group of men, presumably interested in one subject, are brought together in a gathering which offers great intellectual possibilities. Under the lecture system which dominates American colleges, however, this hour usually resolves itself into a more or less dry text-book chapter. In many cases the lecturer merely enlarges upon the reading assigned; and in others the matter which he delivers could be incorporated into a text-book with a positive gain to clearness and cogency...
...being a profitable, honorable and very respectable profession to follow in this twentieth century all young men should have "adequate" opportunity of "making good" in that alluring profession. If Harvard with all its traditions, its intellect, its privileges, can turn out a "group of military specialists" . . . "invaluable to the country in time of war," then Harvard has done its duty by America...
President R. C. Maclaurin, of the Massachusetts Intitute of Technology, has announced that the dedication of the new Technology buildings is to take place June 14 in the great court of the educational group on the further side of the Charles River Basin...
...Whether this part of the program worked out successfully or not is of small consequence. The important fact is that a four years study of military history and modern warfare as a background, with concentration in some particular field such as transportation, explosives, or finance, would turn out a group of military specialists. These men would prove invaluable to the country in time of war. The proof of this is England's condition today. One of her chief difficulties is a lack of technical experts to direct her fast increasing forces. With such a terrible example before our eyes...