Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building up a true military morale out of the curriculum of any American university could be accomplished only if that curriculum were completely junked and a manual of arms substituted in its place. History courses teach the bungling corruption of one after another of our American heroes. Government course strip the glamour off the gleaming facade of our administrative set-up. Psychology reduces emotion, patriotic or otherwise, to nothing more than a stimulus-response mechanism. And a course as basic as Ec A, by adding one and one, dos its part in exploding the myth of free competition...
...country, has only recently extended to weekend "camps," during the winter. The summer camps, conducted by the Friends, International Student Service, and independent groups, bring together young people of differing backgrounds to work on some project of definite value, usually in an underprivileged community. The work is most commonly manual labor, and is supplemented with a study of the region in which the camp is situated, by means of trips, lectures, and discussions...
...values which work camps have for their campers-laboratory practice in social science, first hand knowledge of manual labor, satisfaction in contributing to the welfare of a community, and experience in living and working with people from every sort of social and economic environment-can be carried over to weekend projects without too much loss of effectiveness, and summer campers seem to feel that those values were sufficiently important that every effort should be made to carry them over...
...medications; applications of splints, bandages, and tourniquets; and relief for cases of fainting, drowning, suffocation, and poisoning. These who complete the course will receive the official Red Cross certificate for first aid. There is a charge of $1.00 by the Red Cross to cover the cost of the manual used...
...first lecture the scope and causes of reading difficulties will be discussed; thereafter the Harvard Reading Films will be shown for eight minutes during every class, followed by a short quiz to determine how much the student has learned from the showing. Work in the manual, which teaches selection of important ideas, skimming, and quick comprehension, concludes the period...