Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...General Staff, U. S. Army, who was the inspecting officer of the regiment last week, was so impressed with the efficiency of the Regiment that he has made a favorable report to the War Department. He has written for the CRIMSON the following memorandum concerning the provisional plan for training a corps of reserve officers, and the place the Regiment would occupy in such a scheme...
...most encouraging feature of this tentative plan is the fact that is the fact that it represents the first attempt to standardize and unify the sporadic organizations existing in many colleges for the training of reserve officers. During the past few years the forming of school battalions, business men's drill companies, and college regiments have justly received the greatest praise and encouragement. Such movments have been most important in the campaign to impress upon the public the imperative need of an adequate defence program. The three great preparedness parades in New York, Chicago, and Boston have given evidence that...
...high school are spent in obtaining a knowledge of the fundamentals of chemistry and engineering. The next nine months are spent in six industrial plants and the last nine months in the extensive Technology laboratories in Cambridge which are about to be dedicated. The main feature of the new plan is the emphasis on the nine months spent in direct contact with industries. The plan involves no mere hasty visit to different plans or superficial survey of industrial processes. A professor will be maintained in each of the six stations at the different plants and will be provided with...
After the student has gone the round of these six stations and worked in each plant under the direction of the professor who is permanently located there, he will round out his chemical studies by further investigations in Boston. An important feature of the plan is that each station maintains a research laboratory where men who have graduated from the course or other competent chemists will pursue investigations on problems presented by the particular industry where the station is. It is the bringing of the school into the industry and of the industry into the school that is the striking...
...plan for electing the Rhodes Scholars from the United States for 1916 will go into effect next October, when the examinations will be held. Hitherto scholars have been elected in all the states of the Union in two successive years, but in each recurring third year none was chosen. In the future scholars will be elected from 32 states every year, and for this purpose the 48 states have been divided into three groups of 16 each--A, B, and C. Thus in 1916 scholars will be elected from A and B; In 1917 from...