Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...courses include business subjects, mathematics, language, history, economics, English, music, natural sciences, elocution and commercial law. Technical subjects, like stenography, will be given by paid teachers, but the other courses will be conducted by volunteers from the University. One of the features is the preparation for the civil service examinations for the post office and custom house...
Fifty-four courses are offered, including all subjects ordinarily taught in a high school, and many subjects that are not taught in the public schools, such as courses in instrumental and vocal music, business training, bookkeeping, shorthand, telegraphy, typewriting and civil service. As in most evening schools, the classes are largely composed of working people, including both men and women. College men can take any of the courses by paying the usual dues. In fact, several College men took courses in telegraphy, typewriting, and shorthand last year...
...lecturer next described the training and daily routine of a life-saver. The men must pass civil service examinations and severe annual physical tests. The pay is small and the work proportionally hard, for two men are always on patrol duty at night and on foggy days, and no matter what the weather is, they must remain out four hours at a time. Frequent drills are held with the self-righting and self-bailing boats and with the breeches-buoy...
...addition to the new degree in Harvard College, a Graduate School of Applied Science has been established as a permanent department of the University. For the present the following degrees will be granted in this school: Bachelor in Civil Engineering, in Mechanical Engineering, and in Electrical Engineering, Mining Engineer, Metallurgical Engineer, Bachelor in Architecture, Bachelor in Landscape Architecture, Master of Science in Forestry, Master of Science in Physics, Master of Science in Chemistry, Master of Science in Zoology, and Master of Science in Geology. A bachelor's degree in arts or science, or its equivalent, is required for admission...
Wilson, H. K., civil engineering...