Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strangely reminiscent of Mr. Bryan. Physical training in schools and colleges is essentially desirable but it is not obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
...units by the government. According to the descriptive circular, the coast artillery was chosen as the second form of training to be put in colleges because of the important part it played in the world war, and because of its adaptability to the regular college curricula with a minimum of disturbance...
...Coast Artillery Corps includes railway artillery, army artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and part of the trench artillery, in addition to the strictly coast defense guns. The course provides for two hours of physical training per week, which may take the form of athletics. A minimum of three hours a week of theoretical instruction is required, including plane and solid geometry, place and spherical trigonometry, college algebra, use of slide rule, physics, (electricity, optics, statical and dynamic mechanics, physical laboratory work, theory of errors, and thermo-dynamics), American history, English, plane surveying, gunnery, and two hours per week of military instruction...
Thirty thousand dollars has been set as the minimum amount to be subscribed by the undergraduates of the University in the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign. This sum has been divided among the four classes of the college in proportion to their enrollment at the last registration. Subscriptions of unclassified and out-of-course students will be credited to the class with which the purchaser will graduate...
Because of the fact that only forty percent of the required minimum of 100 students have enrolled in the Field Artillery Unit, at Princeton, it may not be possible to keep a unit there. AT the present time, only three Seniors, four Juniors, nine Sophomores, and 23 Freshmen, a total of 39 out of the 1,200 students of the university, have signified their intention of joining...