Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With a prospective enrolment of 20,000, Columbia easily retains its title of the largest university in the world. In fact, no other institution of learning in the world even approaches it in size. For this supremacy Columbia has the European war to thank. Before the war broke out the University of Berlin, with 14,000 students, was well on the way to leadership. Today, however, it is lagging far in the rear. While it is hardly fair to compare Columbia's statistics with those of other American universities because the word "student" does not mean the same...
...Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national self-overestimation which seems to be inseparable from periods of striking national ascendency, both quickening and endangering this ascendency itself...
...there were and are Harvard men scattered in hospital work not only elsewhere in France, but in England and even Serbia. With Prof. Strong in Serbia went Dr. George Shattuck '01, Dr. F. B. Grinnell '09, and Dr. Sellards, instructor in Tropical Medicine in the Harvard Medical School...
...seems complex, but we often got patients in the hospital in Paris within 12 to 14 hours after they have been hit, even when coming from Arras or the line farther north toward Ypres. On arrival in the hospital patients are at once seen by the receiving officer, who, in our service, was one of the residents, and by him sent either to the ward direct, to have a bath first, or to the operating-room, as each single case demanded. The largest number of admissions to the University Service in any 24 hour period was 33 cases...
...been written down upon the colored card. It is seldom that an intelligent selection of courses can be made from reading the elective pamphlet alone. Particularly are snap judgments inadvisable,--a selection made on the assurance of a classmate that the course is "easy," a sudden whim, or even at times the advice of a Faculty adviser. Trial visits, careful consideration of both subject-matter and instructor are necessary. In spite of the annoying but necessary "red tape" involved, the Committee on Electives readily allows intelligent changes. And in a matter involving one's intellectual development it pays...