Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plans have been completed for the establishment of a permanent military school at Columbia University in which three branches of military science and tactics--infantry, artillery, and signal corps work, --will be taught in co-operation with the regular graduate and undergraduate work of the university. It has been announced by that university that, in accordance with the plans of the War Department which is arranging to establish military schools in universities and colleges throughout the country, Columbia hopes to create a large body of trained officers, whose numbers will be increased with every graduating class, and who will...
...describing the work of the heavy artillery branch, Lieut. Col. A. R. Edwards, Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Columbia recently explained the plan as follows: "Membership in the heavy artillery unit will be open to pre-engineering students in their second college year, and should be completed at the end of the second year in the graduate Engineering School, four years in all. Courses in gunnery, orientation, artillery fundamentals, embracing field service regulations, military law, and artillery material will be given...
Colonel Edwards also emphasized the fact that military instruction at Columbia would be co-ordinated with the regular work of the students. Courses in heavy artillery will fit logically with the courses of the men preparing to be civil engineers, and training in the Signal Corps will be closely connected with the work of students of electrical engineering...
...swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors will give courses designed to fit men for eventual commissions in the Infantry, Artillery, and Signal Service, College authorities all over the country are accepting one or the other of these alternate plans...
...Hotel Astor in New York. The University team won third place, and made up for its previous defeat at the hands of Yale by scoring a decisive victory of 8-2 over that college. E. R. Gay '19, captain of the University team, tied Capt. Bloomer of Columbia for the intercollegiate championship,. but was beaten in the fence-off for the title by a close score...