Word: planned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan of an American college in Mexico also has the merit of relative simplicity and moderate cost when compared to other schemes which contemplate the education of Mexican youths in this country through a system comparable to the Rhodes scholarships. This latter idea also has the defect that the Mexicans can hardly be expected to display much eagerness in sending their sons for a long sojourn in a country which they regard not only as alien, but as distinctly hostile...
...announcement just made that Oxford will grant the degree of Doctor of Philosophy shows that the plans for broader education in the old world universities are still being strengthened. Formerly Oxford has granted the degree of B.Litt. for graduate work in the arts. The Ph.D. degree granted in American universities is a tribute to the German educational plan, although there is little similarity between the two systems of education...
Coincident with the establishment of the University's Reserve Officers' Corps, extensive plans for preparedness are being made by colleges throughout the country. In the event of war Columbia University's entire resources will be turned over to the national government. The Secretary of the Navy has approved a tentative plan, formulated by a Columbia preparedness committee of professors, whereby the university will directly enlist all its facilities to aid the Government when necessity arises. The plan includes joining the laboratories, hospitals and professional departments of the university with the Government's machinery of military and naval preparedness. A field...
...that the precious inheritance of Anglo-Saxon democracy is now at stake; that America must be prepared to fight for it, as she has fought for it before. I believe that universal service is the fairest and most democratic method of preparedness, both military and industrial; and that a plan of universal service, largely conceived, will have a great constructive usefulness, whether or not we engage in war, in organizing the unity and happiness of the nation, in the construction of a better social order than that under which we now live. Harvard University has never failed in patriotism...
Continuing a plan initiated last year a patrol squadron, consisting of privately owned power boats of high speed armed with light guns of various calibre has been established in the Second Naval District for purposes of patroling and defence against submarines in time of war. The personnel of the boats is composed of such volunteers as may, because of nautical or wireless experience, be accepted as qualified for service...