Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loss is one from which we will not easily recover for many reasons. Since he took charge of the Naval Department here in October he installed a plan of instruction for the ensign's examinations which ranks with the cadet school in Holyoke House and with that at Annapolis. He worked untiringly for our advancement, taking pains to include in his program every detail which would make our training as officers more complete. As an instructor and a drill-master he showed a tense interest in every man in his course, working with patient thoroughness and a degree of fairness...
...entire army has now become a training school for officers, according to General Pershing's plan for the promotion of enlisted men. All who show sufficient ability are to be detached from each unit to take special instruction with the purpose of obtaining a commission. In this way it is intended to form a large corps of reserve lieutenants...
...preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers with sufficient bearing and knowledge to mark them out at once as leaders. To all who are so trained General Pershing's plan assures a commission...
Colleges of the Western Conference will probably compete in grenade throwing at their track meets next year if the plan of the athletic directors is adopted. Any such combination of military training with field events deserves the approval of those who wish one to be universal and the other to be continued. By injecting the rivalry of intercollegiate competition into the work of the R. O. T. C. 's, not only will training be undertaken more enthusiastically and thoroughly, but also it will become more widespread. Every effort to turn sports to direct advantage in military preparation...
...them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that institution, advocates a general acceleration of the courses--and not only that; but an all-the-year-round session. Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university would resemble the old-fashioned cable system of street cars, in which a great endless cable moved forever beneath the street, upon which...