Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current number of Every body's Magazine, President Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D. '09, of Cornell, puts forth some interesting views on the question of military training in the colleges. He bases his article on the problem of national defence and on the country's present un preparedness to cope with attack, and offers as a solution of the problem the systematic tutoring of college men for positions as officers in time of emergency. President Schurman does not advance his view simply as a possible scheme; he regards such a course as the only remedy for the precarious conditions...
...Trustees of the Dudleian Lectures have appointed William Adams Brown, Ph.D., D.D., Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology, at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, to give the Dudleian lecture for the current academic year. The lecture will be given in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Wednesday evening, February 17, at 8 o'clock. The subject will be, "The Permanent Significance of Miracle for Religion...
They have shown that, given a live subject, that hits him, the undergraduate will shake off the torpor of indifference that too often marks his attitude toward current affairs, and will take up the cudgels with vehemence...
...moss-covered error moor us at its side, While the world on truth's current glides by." F. TREADWELL SMITH...
...last session of the Massachusetts Legislature, a resolution was passed authorizing the Board of Education to investigate the subject of founding a state university. Inasmuch as there are already fifteen or sixteen collegiate institutions in the state, a state university would be an unnecessary duplication of equipment. As the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin points out, a much more efficient method would be the appropriation of scholarships by the state. This would not be nearly so expensive as the upkeep of many of the western state universities. The extension courses conducted by the University and various other institutions throughout...