Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some cases both Greek and Latin have been abolished as entrance requirements. General interest was aroused when Yale and Princeton announced that change, but subsequently Yale decided not to confer the arts degree without Latin...
...upon the belief that the student's work in preparatory school and college should be considered as a unit and that the degree of Bachelor of Arts is essentially a degree in liberal studies, just as the Bachelor of Science is a degree in scientific studies. Our Faculty in general is predisposed in favor of Greek, and is doing all it can to encourage the study of this subject as one of the most important elements in a liberal education. For a long time it has, however, been increasingly difficult and indeed often impossible for men who wished to pursue...
...first essential change made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology as a result of the war was the introduction in the Division of Science and Engineering of a course that will include a general history of science and engineering, principles of economics, corporations and finance, labor problems, civics and citizenship, international relations, and English literature. Increased attention will be given to practice in public speaking...
...general educational scheme, courses in navigation, agricultural botany, and zoology have been added since the war began. There have also been created new courses in business organization, statistics, and accounting, and steps taken for the completer development of a definite School of Commerce and Finance...
...this country in the fall, the process of discharge is necessarily slow, and, taken in addition to the recognized possibility of a return several weeks after college begins, might well play have with a successful fall term. Besides, small opportunity would be given for travel or the observation of general conditions overseas, except from the very limited viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such scant faith is apparently placed by the High Command in the loyalty and integrity of the American soldier, that...