Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this last week of the University's Liberty Loan drive the undergraduates face the problem of subscribing almost twice as much as was turned in by the College in the opening week of the campaign. The amount now needed to fulfill the College's quota of $30,000 is a sum of $19,100. This means that the average subscriptions must be more per day than averaged during the week preceding vacation...
...Government has made the right start towards meeting these conditions with its new system of employment managers. These men will be trained at business schools and colleges,--some here at the University,--and will have it their special task to solve the problems of labor in the Government's industries. Efficient hiring and "firing" will be their immediate duty, but to do this well they will have to obtain an exhaustive knowledge of labor conditions from every standpoint. They will see the necessity of organization, and will be in the best position to develop the methods of attaining...
...appointments of officers and non-commissioned officers to hold office until the end of the College year will be published on the first day of the spring term. The two organizations that are executing the combat problem will be divided into two full companies according to the new American regulations, and during the exercises battalion commanders will act as captains...
...part in the training during the spring term. Such drills will be held regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. In order to promote as efficient execution as possible in these exercises the corps will receive maps and plans of the manoeuver before leaving for the actual practice of the problem. Moreover, some of the usual lecture periods of the winter schedule will be replaced during the spring training, by critiques held under Lieutenant Morize's supervision on the manoeuver grounds immediately after the execution of the exercises...
...other point is that, should the German army, in its next effort towards the west, succeed in breaking the line south or southwest of Amiens, it will then be faced by a problem which its method of advance renders especially difficult. The Germans, since 1870, have consistently employed the methods of what are known as linear strategy; that is, each group of the army advances along its own line of communication, along closely delimited and parallel battle strips. This virtually compels the army to advance in a straight line. And, if a change of direction, as is indicated...