Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will war teach U.S. college students to work harder? Looking through its rosy academic spectacles last week, Evanston's Northwestern University thought the answer might be yes. Anyway, its 53 medically discharged student veterans were averaging 5% higher marks than its 2,000 civilian students. Most of the veterans...
For most of the 4,230 officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps who were enrolled in courses at the Graduate School of Engineering during the past academic year, radar, one of the major developments of the war, was the basis of their training, Dean Harald M. Westor gaard...
A Canadian won a medal for explaining the "painful plight" of Canadian letters. The Canadian Authors' Association adjudged Toronto-born Edward Killoran Brown's On Canadian Poetry the best academic nonfiction work of 1943 by a Canadian, awarded him the annual Governor-General's medal.
Although the program of the School has been frequently impeded by wartime conditions, seminars and research have continued. Much of this valuable work has been of necessity experimental in character, concerned with the complicated problems of public policy and administration. During the past academic year alone more than 75 officials...
"The [University's] function [is] advancing knowledge by freely determined research and teaching. We cannot see how the University could become an effective instrument ... of the revolutionary crusade . . . except by some kind of common institutional adherence to a particular analysis of what is wrong with the world . . . and ... a...