Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University, with all its connected activities, is arousing itself from the straight bonds of the semi-military supervision of the S. A. T. C. and all indications point to a speedy resumption of the normal pre-war college life. To accomplish this regeneration of the University it is necessary for those students who have been in service to get back to duty at Cambridge at the earliest possible moment. It is a good sign that the College Office is making preparations to handle two thousand registrants today, and expects more to drift in during the next few weeks as they...
...University authorities have decided to give all of the men who come to College after the S. A. T. C. disbands full credit for their work done during the first term. These men will continue their courses during the second term from the point where they left them before Christmas...
...said that Cornell had had in its curriculum two years of compulsory military training for three hours a week, but that he now advocated a combination of military and physical training to be prescribed for four years, with five hours of work a week. He said that West Point could not supply the officers necessary for a possible future war, when we should have to go to arms immediately with no allied nations happily stemming the tide for ten or twelve months, and that the colleges would have to supply this need...
Brigadier-General M. Churchill, who sailed Tuesday for France as a member of the staff of Major-General Bliss, is a member of the class of 1900. He joined the army shortly after graduation and received his appointment to West Point after a few years of service. He was stationed at Fort Sill as a lieutenant and in 1914 was sent over to France as captain of a special detail. Here, he received his major's commission and about a year ago was raised to the rank of brigadier-general and ordered back to Washington to a position...
...possible. For some of the large institutions, however, considerable time may elapse before traces of the Students' Army entirely disappear and the normal pre-war activities are resumed. Until that time there could be no better watchword for the student soldier than that to which the cadets at West Point owe allegiance: "Duty, Honor, Country...