Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arriving at the end of their college days, how many men have found themselves lonely, unknown to their classmates! How many, in looking back over their college career, have recognized their mistakes too late. General Johnston once exclaimed, when he had missed a train, "I ran fast enough but I didn't start soon enough...
...failures, their financial status, and their basis of popularity, and from this data, the derivation of an application to our own problem; and then (2) a campaign to gain the widespread interest in the Union, the popularity, which will be its sustaining power. This would mean more entertainments of general appeal, better eating arrangements; in short, more comprehensive adaptability to the social needs of the College as a whole, whatever they...
...Engineering is a new and rapidly growing profession, already subdivided into numerous well-developed special fields, some of them being distinct professions. Mechanical engineering includes engines, gas and water motors, machines, automobiles, refrigeration, power plants. Electrical Engineering deals with generators, motors, lighting, telephones and telegraphs, wireless telegraphy, and in general with the electric generation, distribution and use of power. Civil Engineering includes structures of wood, masonry and metals; reinforced concrete; roads and railroads; water supply, and water power; canals, river and harbor works. Sanitary Engineering is concerned in safeguarding food and water supplies, in the disposal of community wastes...
...value it must be based on sufficient sound training in the fundamentals. Therefore specialized studies are planned for graduates; and the opportunities for such work will be unusual and varied. Emphasis on fundamentals should not be mistaken to mean that the undergraduate work will be general courses in science; on the contrary, it will contain more engineering and engineering laboratory work than is customary and will be definite, thorough preparation for the different engineering professions...
...fact that most boys can not spend more than four years in an engineering school. These four years will be largely of prescribed subjects; but the fifth and other graduate years will usually be made up of elective courses in special fields or will be devoted to research. In general five years of work successfully completed in the school will lead to a Master's Degree. At least two years of the first four can be anticipated in college by those who wish to have a general education before entering the school and such men, as well as graduates...