Word: program
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that is in the negative. In the first place, nearly every college in New England is either directly or indirectly furnishing valuable aid to the Government in its military preparedness. This aid is essential, for the Germans are not through with attempting to sink transports. If the present program or military efficiency is to be carried out, these university adjuncts must be kept in working condition. The difference between the amount of coal necessary to heat the buildings used for military purposes and the entire college is so slight as to make its saving negligible. The radio schools, the aero...
...Captain James P. Parker '96, N. N. V., commandant of the Cadet School, and Admiral Wood, who has recently been appointed commandant of the First Naval District. As yet none of the speakers have announced the subjects of their addresses. Captain Parker will open the exercises. Next on the program will be Presider Lowell, followed by Admiral Wood, who will award the commissions...
...Bureau of Vocational Guidance at the University, which is affiliated with the Department of Education, has just completed its first piece of work of national importance. This work is intimately connected with the country's war preparation program, for it presents clearly and concisely the nature of the training that is needed today in order to engage in the ship-building industry...
...There are really two problems bound up in the emergency program of the Shipping Board: first, the securing of large numbers of workmen who have been prepared in trades somewhat similar to those found in the shipyards; second, retention of these men in their tasks for the period of the war. Of the two, the latter is the more difficult one, and involves the task of the special training of men who must be quickly instructed in the great variety of mechanical trades connected with the fabrication and erection of steel ships...
Criticism of our program as a warring nation tends too often toward censure. It is the faults, the delays, and the inefficiency that are pointed out, in no uncertain amount of reason what we condemn the activities of the War Department. for the proof of investigations tends to show that those men whose duty is to manage the military preparation have not altogether justified our trust in them. Errors are pointed out and discussed, in order to have them remedied. Not from malice nor from political prejudice do we try to discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination...