Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College needs $26,050 more to complete its quota. The Junior Class has shown no marked progress and has yet to subscribe 73 per cent of its assigned quota of $21,000. The prescribed amount for the Sophomore Class has been approached to within $4,100 and at the present rate of advance 1921 will be over the top Thursday night. The Senior Class quota is now over subscribed $3,550. Though the loan is progressing nearly according to schedule five-sixths of the University undergraduates have failed to co-operate in the drive...
...further training in this branch of the service. If, however, on the satisfactory completion of Military Sciences 1 and 2, a student desires to continue further study in Military Science, he must, in order to receive a commission and com- mutation of rations, which amount to approximately $12 per month, formally agree to complete the entire schedule of courses...
Only $2,150 was subscribed by the College yesterday in the eighth day of the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign. To obtain the quota of $30,000 per week, the average subscription must be $5,000 per day. Last week, there was a deficiency of $5,000 in the week's total, an amount which must be made up in the eleven remaining days of the campaign...
...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...
...series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts...