Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the formation of an undergraduate committee to encourage enlistments, the plan for the naval cruise has been formally launched. The scheme has of necessity been late in getting started and is handicapped by the short time left in which to interest college men. The naval cruise is as important as the plattsburg camps, for the navy is almost entirely lacking in a reserve force. From the personal side, the war games, the participation in manoeuvers with the battleships, and the cruise along the New England coast makes the scheme exceedingly attractive...
...declares that a revolution is necessary before national preparedness can become a reality. Adopting a socialist view, the writer, tears down and rakes over our whole economic, social, and political system, merely to leave it in that condition. The importance of universal education is stressed, and an elaborate, impossible scheme is set forth for a new system, but aside from this, no methods for improvement are suggested. The present measures of the government for preparedness are denounced as misdirected. Of what value are powerful armies and navies, it asks, when we have no minimum standard of living? It proceeds...
...next year, according to the final announcement of courses, which may now be had at University 2. In the anticipated event of Congress passing the "Reserve Officers' Training Corps Act," the War College Division of the General Staff, charged with standardizing military instruction, has given provisional approval to the scheme as suitable for military instruction of candidates for appointment as reserve officers in the United States Army...
...Special Schools who takes, in addition to the courses in the Line School, four courses either in Engineering Sciences and Mathematics; or Meteorology and Climatology; or Economics; or Chemistry; or an approved program in scientific subjects, may receive a special designation under categories recognized by the War Department. His scheme of a study must, however, be submitted to and approved by the Committee on Military Instruction and the Military Instructor...
Students may qualify under this scheme either by selecting as their field for concentration one of the departments, such as History, Government, Engineering, Economics, Chemistry, and Meteorology (geology), in which prescribed courses fall; or by a proper selection of subjects for distribution. Any arrangement of courses must meet the existing rules for concentration and distribution...