Word: succession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three types of men have long been accustomed to scoff at the value of colleges in what they like to regard as the real things of life. First there is the self-made man whose marvelous success so biases his personal opinions that he is unable to think except in terms of self. Then comes the trained specialist whose whole education has been limited to a certain field and who has completely disregarded whatever was irrelevant to his chosen province. It is true this fellow will admit that one may get a start in the right direction at college...
Rewards in the shape of promotion and assignments to responsible positions have been given to three of the men most instrumental in the success of the R. O. T. C. last spring and summer...
...conducted by the University since last spring was brought to a close by appropriate exercises in Sanders Theatre. Although the War Department found it impossible for reasons technical and otherwise to officially recognize the Corps by giving commissions at that time to those men qualified to receive them, the success and value of the work accomplished has been acknowledged not only by the unofficial statements of Generals Wood, Edwards, Hoyle, Johnson, and McCain, and Secretary Baker, but also by the attitude of the Government towards the men who completed the course. In spite of the fact that the general rule...
Although the instruction given by the French Mission, their interest and zeal in the work and their skill in conducting the exercises were responsible for the great success of the R. O. T. C., no less credit is due to Captain James A. Shannon, who was in charge of the regiment for the greater part of the three months. Less known to the University at large, but hardly less deserving, was the part played by Major Theodore Lyman '93 in handling the finances of the Corps. Had it not been for his work at several critical periods in the earlier...
...which are prevention of maladjustment. Around these two institutions may be grouped other institutional agencies devoted to the study of human behavior. These institutions include the home, college, juvenile court, courts, home for dependents, prisons, organizations for the study of social conditions and the improvement of these conditions. Our success in the great struggle in which we have entered calls for a mobilization of the brains of the nation. If civilization is to profit, and not be set back by this conflict, we must be prepared to secure an even more effective mobilization of brains in time of peace...