Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with 41. The others are: Field Artillery 17, Medical Corps 12, Machine Gun Corps 8, Engineers 8, Coast Artillery Corps 5, Cavalry 4, Quarter Master Corps 4. Intelligence Service 3, S. A. T. C. 3, Ordnance Corps 2, Ambulance Corps 2, Dental Corps 2, Signal Corps 1, and Inspector General's Department...
...first time, Yale and Princeton will hold a general rowing regatta this year. It has been scheduled for May 3 on the Housatonic course of a mile and 500 yards. Each college will be represented by three crews,--two university and a Freshman eight...
...Cambridge mass meeting to take place in Sanders Theatre at 7 o'clock this evening. Brigadier-General Charles H. Cole, 26th Division, A. E. F., and N. Penrose Hallowell '97, executive chairman of the New England Victory Liberty Loan Committee, will speak. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting, which is being held under the auspices of the Cambridge Liberty Loan Committee. Professor W. B. Munro will preside...
Yale and Princeton are not alone in making important changes in their scholastic requirements as a result of lessons learned during the last few years. Harvard has joined them during the last few days by announcing that the plan of holding a general examination for the degree of A. B. will be extended to most of the college departments. The idea of a general examination has been tried out for some time on a limited scale in one branch of undergraduate work with excellent results; it is now to be greatly enlarged in its application...
...Harvard proposal is that students shall hereafter, except in a few cases where the nature of the studies makes the plan unnecessary, be given a general examination toward the close of their Senior year and shall be required to display at this examination a reasonable proficiency in some general field of college work. This is a new idea in American education, but it probably represents an important step in the right direction. Boston Herald...