Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Swiss method of training all able-bodied young men for the work of a soldier and keeping them in reserve but always ready for immediate mobilization interferes very little with the education of the people or with their industries and earning power. The cost of this system is also lower than that of any other European system, or of the present American system. There are two provisions in the Swiss military constitution which should be copied especially. by the American Commonwealth; first, the prescription of universal physical training in all schools on a program laid down by the national government...
...University authorities time to read-just the training program to meet the needs of a country at peace, and to replace the methods of the old R. O. T. C. and the S. A. T. C., where sudden necessity was the mother of many makeshifts, with a sound system that will become as much a part of the University as English A and the Freshman Dormitories. It is probable that this program will provide for a concentration of all field work and drill in the summer, with only classes during the rest of the year. It is also more than...
...year there will be no active military or naval training for Harvard undergraduates, according to a statement made yesterday by President Lowell. In view of the facts that the great majority of men returning to Cambridge from the service would not receive additional benefit from such training, that the systems of training recently enforced do not appear the best which can be devised, and that the development of a practical and permanent system of military instruction for coming classes is of primary import, the university authorities believe that it will be more feasible to begin its new military program...
...work in summer camps of approximately six weeks' duration, and to devote that part of the work which would come during term time to lectures and class room work. The establishment of a field artillery unit here is favored because this branch lends itself most readily to such a system, although President Lowell believes it advisable to continue a certain amount of infantry work at the same time. It is of course at present impossible to state definitely the course which will be followed. During the next few months the question is to be carefully considered, and advance preparations will...
...Every university team in some way to be picked from many teams which may still be allowed to play throughout the season. We must do away with the system which discards at the very beginning of the playing season all but the picked few who can survive. Training and competition must be continued for the entire squad...