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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intention of going, the geological field trip to the mountains of Colorado next summer is now assured. The party will leave Boston on the seventh or eighth day of July, and will start work in the southeastern portion of the mountains. Later, a trip will be taken through the higher mountains. Professor W. W. Atwood will be in charge, and there will be two additional assistants...
...attacking problems and entering into what is truly technical training has a further influence. By the end of the second year the students have adjusted themselves to the new conditions, and in the third year they have made up the deficiency and are ready to go on to a higher average...
...officers which Captain Cordier has kindly thrown open to all who are interested, irrespective of previous training, not only greatly facilitates the development of effective officers from those men who have already had some military practice, but it makes it possible for even the totally inexperienced to aspire to higher rank. Men who are really interested in making soldiers out of themselves can find no better supplement to the regular military work than attending this special "non-com." class...
...infantry. Infantry training, said Captain Cordier, is the basis of all other military work, and is useful in all arms of the service. The aim will be to train as many men as possible to become, with additional work, good company officers. The more complicated work necessary for higher officers will not be treated. The instruction will be divided into theoretical and practical work. It is hoped that experts in the various arms of the service will talk on their branches and several have already been secured...
...entire educational system in Japan is controlled by the government, as in Germany. The schools are conducted on a very efficient basis, so that 98 per cent. of the children attend; but the percentage in the higher institutions is not as great as in America. Before the student goes to the university, he has several years of work which corresponds to the undergraduate work of this country. At the universities only the degree of M.A., without the intermediate one of A.B., is conferred...