Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George de Forest Brush, 84, oldtime U.S. portraitist, of 19th-Century academic traditions, past whose pretty, clear-colored mother-&-child portraits, prominently hung in older museums, the U.S. museum-strolling public has for 50 years beaten a reverent, admiring path; in Hanover, N.H.
Most of his discussion yesterday was confined to a factual outline of the British attitude toward training men for technical positions. "This war is a technical war in which physicists and engineers in particular are at a high premium," he stated in the opening portion of his speech. Although the...
In the British universities today, it seems to be recognized that this war is a technical war in which the physicists and engineers in particular are at a high premium. This premise colors all the discussions of academic problems. It is argued by classicists and scientists alike that the universities...
What the present trend of thought does mean is that the academic world has come to the conclusion that the war must first be won and that this consideration is paramount to the continuation of free institutions under which alone universities can fulfill their first aim.
Even the few students who remained at Harvard to study did not escape army supervision. Student Army Training Corps was established in August, 1918, when the draft age was lowered to 18. Eleven hours a week were devoted to direct military training, and the rest of the time was given...