Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...government has embarked upon a new policy of securing officers for our army. The system of irregular training schools held only when conditions demanded has been replaced by a plan involving a series of camps, which will begin every month and which will largely depend, for enrolment, upon members of the S. A. T. C. The problem of officering our rapidly increasing military forces has long been a grave one; the extension of the draft ages has made it all the more serious. The new system offers a definite method of solving the problem, and as such deserves the strong...
...planned, the S. A. T. C. provides for direct Government control of the greater part of the student body. In addition, by receiving selected high school graduates each college will make full use of all its equipment and organization. A double advantage is thereby secured, in that colleges will be able to continue actively their was service, while the nation will possess a tangible, ever replenished store-house of future officer material. That the American college will not suspend its academic activities during the war is alone of immense advantage. We have seen the English and French universities go down...
...order to provide military instruction for the college students of the country during the present emergency a comprehensive plan will be put in effect by the War Department, beginning with the next college year in September 1918. The details remain to be worked out but in general the plan will be as follows...
...compels an earlier call. Students under eighteen and therefore not legally eligible for enlistment, will be encouraged to enroll in the training units. Provision will be made for co-ordinating the Reserve Officers' Training Corps system, which exists in about one-third of the collegiate institutions, with this broader plan...
...suggestion. Perhaps Harvard has a better scheme." The Roll of Honor recently set up is not a better, but merely another scheme; and one does not exclude the other. While the number of our dead is still comparatively small, would it not be well to adopt the London plan, and begin at once to place the pictures of the men on the Honor Roll in immediate proximity to the Roll itself? --The Aliemni Bulletin...