Word: schoolmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plans for a camp of military instruction for New York schoolboys, to be held under the auspices of the National Guard this summer, have been announced by Dr. C. W. Crampton, president of the Schoolmen's Military Corps. The camp will be held at Peekskill from August 9 to September 9, on the state grounds. It will accommodate 1000 boys between the ages of 16 and 19 years...
There will also be a schoolmen's battalion of 300 principals and teachers of New York schools who will be drilled in order that they may instruct the schoolboys next fall under the terms of the Slater bill requiring universal military training in the high schools...
...centuries passed schools slipped from the control of the Church, and benefit of clergy was no more. But no people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons...
...EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE. "The New Plan for Admission to Harvard." Professor Baker. Common Room, Conant Hall, 8 P. M. Open to members of the University and to schoolmen...