Word: founded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leaning toward the classics is shown by the disappearance of Sophocles, Petronius, and Ovid. O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, Conrad and others of similar nature are found to offer special temptation. For a time there were fatalities among the war books, but they later returned to service on the shelves...
...same footing as students in Harvard College in respect to dormitories, clubs, athletics and social activities, except that they will have less time for such matters. For a few months the work of the school will be carried on at a disadvantage, a condition to be found in most institutions at present. Pierce Hall will again be available for the school; the laboratory equipment now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be restored or made fully available, and the teachers now on leave will return. The work will soon be on a normal basis as to staff and plant...
...this respect the college might even go a step further in imitation of the ancient Greeks, and see that every man who desires to enter an athletic contest spends at least three months in preparatory training. By so doing many of the heart strains and other physical disorders found in the recent draft examinations would be avoided...
...were becoming harder and harder to meet. The membership had declined. It was proposed to make membership compulsory among the students in order to meet the annually increasing deficit, but the plan was never carried out. The war and the Radio School coming at just this period, it was found convenient to install a new "Mem" Dining Room in the big Reading Room. The Dining Hall will be operated for the remainder of the year, but the question is before us as to what will become of the Union in the future...
...became evident in the beginning of the war when demands came to Washington for cooks, lumbermen, carpenters, etc., that it would be necessary to know where the men with such qualifications could be found. For that purpose, the Committee on Classification of Personnel was employed in classifying and placing three and one-half million men according to occupation, trade, scale, schooling, intellectual ability, etc. This committee also provided tables of occupational needs and of the specifications and personnel for the various trades. In this invaluable work the executive ability and common sense of the psychologist was of more importance than...