Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement that the University is definitely to have a Field Artillery Unit is a welcome solution of the military problem. The success of artillery training at Yale has been well established in the war, and moreover many men from other colleges have proved themselves capable artillery officers. This result is not unexpected for it is well appreciated that college men are best suited to perform the specialized duties and complete the exacting training demanded by this branch of the service...
...addition to the suitability of artillery to the college man it is especially adapted to the peculiar problem of military training at the colleges themselves. The curriculum of the artillery runs more nearly parallel to the academic program than does that of infantry or any other arm. There is enough technical and theoretical knowledge to be learned to keep several courses going throughout the year. With sufficient classroom work to be undertaken, winter drills under adverse conditions would not be necessary in order to keep the military system intact. This is perhaps the most important factor in adapting artillery...
...military has taught us that the defensive rarely wins the campaign. Let us take the offensive at once and solve the Union problem...
Among the questions which will come up for decision, with the resumption of more normal times in the college life, must be that difficult and perplexing problem of the Union; a subject which already has called forth much discussion, much argument, but the minimum of action towards the definite achievement of placing that institution in the position which it should hold in the University...
...choice of the committee, but considerations are suggested along these lines: (1) a thorough study of similar institutions in other colleges, dealing particularly with their successes and failures, their financial status, and their basis of popularity, and from this data, the derivation of an application to our own problem; and then (2) a campaign to gain the widespread interest in the Union, the popularity, which will be its sustaining power. This would mean more entertainments of general appeal, better eating arrangements; in short, more comprehensive adaptability to the social needs of the College as a whole, whatever they...