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...plans the entrance requirements for students intending to become engineers will remain the same as those for admission to the courses leading to degrees in the arts and sciences. During the first year all engineering students, regardless or which branch they elect later, will pursue the same studies, which correspond to those now given in the freshman year of the civil engineer curriculum They include analytical geometry, calculus, chemistry, engineering drawing English, a foreign language, and hygiene and physical-education...
...interest, rentals and other charges as 15, the remainder of 10 is the surplus available for dividends, improvements or reserves. But instead of 100 units of traffic and revenue, the railroads are now offered but 80 units. If expenses, taxes and charges could each be reduced 20 percent to correspond with the decrease in traffic, the decrease in the surplus would be but 20 percent, or 2 units. Unfortunately, however, expenses cannot be reduced in the same proportion as the decrease in traffic, because such a large part of them are more or less independent of variations in traffic...
...requirements of various states and cites for licenses to teach now make some technical work in education a necessity, and such requirements are amply met by the offering of the School. Admission is limited to graduates of approved colleges and scientific schools, and the requirements for the new degrees correspond to those for the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. Instruction in the summer is necessarily an important part of the work of the School, especially for teachers already in service; and Summer School courses may be counted, under special regulations, toward degrees...
...years old. 'Students of the game generally regard Professor James Naismith as the father of the game. He was a professor at the Spring field Young Men's Christian Association Training College at the time. His idea was to create some sort of a game for indoors that would correspond with football, but with the rougher elements of the great college game eliminated...
Perhaps it would not be stretching the imagination too far to draw an analogy between the position of the foreman in the business world and the section-man in the University. Of course, their actual duties correspond in no way. But the latter does come in close contact with men--the students. And yet the importance of his job tends to be minimized. What a man learns in the section-meeting makes, in a great many cases, a far more lasting impression on his mind than the lectures. The gathering is more informal; the questions are direct. Instead of being...