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...Major Goetz and Major Parker marks the end of the association of these two officers with the University. Major Goetz came here in the spring of 1919, when nearly all the efforts of the War Department were directed toward demobilization, and laid the foundations of the present Field Artillery Unit. His work was far from easy, on account of the apathy toward all things military that followed the war; but he succeeded in interesting a sufficient proportion of the student body to enable him to start two courses in the following September. Since then the expansion of the unit...
...CRIMSON joins the members of the Unit in their attempt to recognize adequately the services of these two officers to the University...
This evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, 150 students and guests of the University's unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will attend a dinner in honor of Majors Robert Charles Frederick Goetz and Edwin Pearson Parker, who have been large3ly responsible for reviving and organizing the present University unit of the R. O. T. C. The two officers were recently notified by the War Department that they will be detailed elsewhere this summer, in accordance with the custom of the department to shift military officers to different stations every three or four...
...Major Goetz organized the present R. O. T. C. unit, which had been discontinued during the war, while Major Parker has contributed greatly to its progress since that time. Professor J. L. Coolidge '95 of the mathematics department will be toastmaster of the dinner, at which about 100 are expected to attend. Reservations may be made at $2.00 a plate by applying to M. S. Russell '25 in Russell...
Educators have long dreamed of a Utopian circle of earnest, well-meaning students, an ideal working unit, with no professors to hamper free intellectual development by the imposition of mechanical exercises and bootless reports. Discussion in this happy family would replace lectures; and idea-killing assignments would be unknown. The difficulty, of course, has been in finding the earnest students. But now, university education appears to be returning to its sources, and the mediaevalist recalls the scenes in Bologna when the students at the University drove their unpopular instructors from the gates of the town...