Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such an occurrence is only one of the many unfortunate habits which are to be seen at Harvard every day. The American spirit of bustle has come to permeate the class room...
Step into any lecture room toward the close of an hour and observe an occurrence which is not uncommon, but which is quite characteristic of the American student. The professor is completing his lecture. Immediately there arises a noise of shuffling feet, of closing note-books, and of clattering tablets as each student prepares to leave the hall. The closing words are a meaningless jumble lost in the general disorder. The students rush out; the professor resignedly gathers up his notes and joins the crowded mass at the door...
...position of President Lowell, not that of President Butler, is taken in the report to the American Association of University Professors by its Committee of Three, on academic freedom in wartime. This was to be expected. The report would have profited by making itself a closer parallel to the pronouncement from Harvard, which is the best considered statement on the subject that has appeared. In contrast with it, the report to the University Professors has the effect of avoiding the most difficult kinds of cases and laying down platitudes for principles. In general, it takes the ground that doubts should...
...intensive training, three weeks in barracks and three weeks in camp. Other courses of war interest are those on Regimental Supply Service; Problems of the war, given in part by President Lowell; Principles and Methods of War Relief, a course designed to train persons for Home Service under the American Red Cross; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, for the training of those intending to enter the Navy or the mercantile marine. Particular attention will be given to the history of the warring countries, and opportunities will be afforded for learning to speak the European languages. The courses in Vocational Guidance...
...Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, left the University last night for Washington, D. C., where he will be engaged in work for the Government. He will be stationed at the American Eperiment Station of the Bureau of Mines, in Washington, as "Assistant to the Director in Charge of Research Problems." The University Field Laboratory--a branch of the Bureau--of which Professor Kohler is head, has also been transferred. For the past few months he has been working in Cambridge with these men on problems arising from...