Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Changes in curricula are numerous. In many institutions new emphasis is being placed on foreign trade courses, and Spanish has come into wider favor. Some are teaching navigation for the first time. In nearly all stress is being laid on the courses which make for better citizenship and service to the State rather than for academic scholarship. These changes are more markedly a result of the war than the changes in entrance requirements. An acute shortage of teachers is apparent in some quarters. In practically all the institutions special preparations are being made to admit returned soldiers...
...matter of scholastic reform. Other colleges are modifying their entrance requirements, or laying emphasis on particular studies of a practical nature; Harvard has reformed her system with a view to increasing undergraduate interest in scholarship. We cannot but feel that the University has taken the better considered course, and at the same time has struck at the real root of the problem...
...individual stars of the meet was Captain I. C. Dresser of Cornell who broke the Intercollegiate record for the two-mile run in a beautifully planned race, outdistancing all others by 100 yards. His time was 9 minutes, 22 2-5 seconds, which is 1 2-5 seconds better than the former record made by Hoffmire of Cornell in 1914, C. E. Johnson of Michigan, a remarkably versatile athlete, scored the largest number of points in the meet, winning the broad jump, placing second in the 100 yard dash, and tying for second in the running high jump. Dartmouth...
...piece band which has been procured. As both the Elis and the Freshmen have lost to Princeton by a score of 5-4 in extra inning contests, the game tomorrow should be very close. The Crimson team is slightly superior at bat, but any advantage gained through this better stick work may be offset by the Blue's defensive strength...
...then, we are to carry on the ideals of American democracy, this paternalistic movement throughout the country must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against...