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Professor R. W. Willson '73, director of the Astronomical Laboratory, has turned the facilities of the laboratory over to the Shipping Board until July 1. In conjunction with the course here, it is also planned to give instruction at M. I. T. It is expected that 50 will be enrolled in the two schools, for which four or five instructors will be needed. At present H. T. Stetson, of the Astronomical Laboratory, is teaching the 12 men now enrolled...
Columbia's enrolment in the special war courses which opened last month has exceeded all expectations. The work is in charge of Professor James C. Egbert, director of the department of extension teaching. Professor Egbert has decided to permit students to enter the classes for several more weeks. The courses include training in trench construction, camp sanitation, army regulations, radio telegraphy, and engineering training such as is needed by army engineers and for similar courses. Other courses are offered for Governmental training, and hosts of classes are open for special training for women who desire to be of service...
Walter Sherman Gifford '05 has been appointed director of the Council of National Defence, the body which was recently recreated by act of Congress to mobilize and unify the industries of the United States. The members of the Council are the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. Fifteen sections and boards of the Council report to the director and through him to the members of the Cabinet, and each member of the advisory council has industrial committees to assist...
...rendered valuable volunteer assistance to the mayor's committee on unemployment in New York, and became supervising director of the committee on industrial preparedness of the Naval Consulting Board...
Captain Rush and his escort were greeted by President Lowell, Professor G. W. Pierce, Ph.D. '99, director of the Cruft Laboratory, and F. W. Hunnewell, 2d, '02, Secretary to the Corporation, upon their arrival at Pierce Hall where the Signal Corps recruits are housed. After reviewing the members of the radio school, some 110 strong, in uniform, the visitors, accompanied by the University officials, inspected the sleeping quarters and classrooms in Pierce Hall, and the equipment and classrooms in the Cruft Laboratory. A detail from the United States Marine Corps, under command of Captain J. A. Adams, which served...