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...infantry close order drill is the fundamental part of military training. Better than anything else it imbues the spirit of discipline. It offers a groundwork on which to build. Therefore we suggest that the first year's training be devoted chiefly to infantry close order and the following years to an intensive study of heavy and field artillery...
These considerations have led the Faculty to introduce the change in the first-year department to go into effect next fall. This change will consist principally in the introduction of a course on general liabilities during the first half-year which will furnish the necessary groundwork for the other divisions and in bringing the students under as many different professors as possible
...stand taken by Mr. May in his article on "Efficiency" printed elsewhere in this issue. He pleads for a college course giving more direct business training. The curriculum now, as we understand it, is aimed to fit men primarily for the business of living. It includes the broad general groundwork which can be secured only before a man plunges into the business of business; and in the end is infinitely more valuable to most men than a four years' training in purely practical things...
...technical blunder or slip, with none that was so obvious as to vex and distract its hearers. Never before has "The Pierian" so learned and mastered its music. Its hearers heard the fruits of diligence and tireless leadership animated by ambition and devotion. All this, however, was only the groundwork to the playing of the orchestra. Alike in the tone-poem and in the symphony, it produced a full body of tone that was surprisingly sonorous and euphonious, animated and diversified...
...arouse interest in fields of study among those who presumably have not already mastered all the standard works available, and for this reason the subjects for prize essays are chosen from among the simpler topics. In many cases a general introductory course in a subject gives a man sufficient groundwork to enable him to do effective research in a prize contest, and this is a point which is very little realized. Of course the more study a man has given to a subject the better he is fitted to do prize work...