Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cause of the largest registration the university ever had. Besides the regular military work, Columbia has set itself the task of training skilled engineers in a two-year course. The new course will take up all branches of engineering and will be open to students with the customary high school education. Naturally it will run through the four quarters of the year. Under the present arrangements the new engineers will be given a special status with the regular...
...planned, the S. A. T. C. provides for direct Government control of the greater part of the student body. In addition, by receiving selected high school graduates each college will make full use of all its equipment and organization. A double advantage is thereby secured, in that colleges will be able to continue actively their was service, while the nation will possess a tangible, ever replenished store-house of future officer material. That the American college will not suspend its academic activities during the war is alone of immense advantage. We have seen the English and French universities go down...
...Auslander invokes "the high, unheeding heart of beauty" melodiously; then, with a sense of return to actualities we read "Runaway," by Malcolm Cowley. Here is poetry stripped of every decoration. The technique is clever, but concealed; and the whole interest is thrown on the psychology of the country boy running away to make his fortune in the city...
Nevertheless, the new plans of organization to be put through next week are absolutely essential if the high standard of military work at the University is to be maintained. As the Athenian method of a group of generals whose power rotated daily proved a failure, so has it been found impossible to conduct a training corps by means of a Tactical Staff with too much power and a central authority which was not strong enough. The abolition of the former and the strengthening of the latter by the appointments of such men as Major Lane to the position of Regimental...
...Marne the German high-water mark of 1914 is again reached. This is a formidable fact. No one in the British or French councils cloaks it. The moment is one of terrible suspense; but the armies of liberty are still at their posts, and their blow will yet be delivered. --Boston Transcript...