Word: schurman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second session in the Faculty Room at two o'clock, the topic of "The Effect of War on Education" was considered. President Jacob Gould Schurman, of Cornell University expressed his belief in the need of compulsory military training in colleges and universities. He said that Cornell had had in its curriculum two years of compulsory military training for three hours a week, but that he now advocated a combination of military and physical training to be prescribed for four years, with five hours of work a week. He said that West Point could not supply the officers necessary...
...officials who are expected to attend the conference include President Lowell, President Hadley of Yale; President Raycroft of Princeton; President Schurman of Cornell; President Ganfield of Williams; President Hopkins of Dartmouth; President Drinkwater of Lehigh; President Nichols of Virginia Military Institute; President Humphries of Stevens; President Finley of University State of New York; President Wheeler of the University of California; President Hutchins of Michigan; President Denny of the University of Alabama; President James of Illinois; President Kirkland of Vanderbilt; Reverend E. A. Pace, president of the Catholic University of America; President Thompson of Ohio State; President Ayres of Tennessee; President...
Officials expected to attend the conference include President Lowell, President Hadley of Yale, Dr. J. E. Raycrort, Princeton; President Edward J. James of Illinois; President R. A. Garfield of Williams, and President J. G. Schurman of Cornell...
...fund will be expended under the supervision of a committee of twenty-six members. Among the members are President Lowell, Presidents Hibben of Princeton, Hadley of Yale, Schurman of Cornell, Denny of the University of Alabama, Drinker of Lehigh, and James of Illinois, Mayor Mitchel, Robert Bacon, William Marshall Bullitt, Philip A. Carroll, Grenville Clark, J. W. Farley, R. M. McElroy, George Wharton Pepper, William C. Proctor, and W. McM. Rutter. Among the representatives of the student camps on the committee are A. B. Roosevelt '17, A. H. Boardman of Yale, and G. H. Gaston, Jr., of Princeton...
...privately endowed institutions, which are not forced by Federal obligations to maintain a military curriculum, President Schurman speaks as follows...