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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...industrial firms it will be invaluable as a source of quick information which may save them many months of arduous research by especially hired experts. With the aid of its well equipped laboratories, Technology will be able to furnish almost immediate information at a minimum cost. An analogy might be drawn between the consulting function of the Department of Agriculture and this new department. If brings the theoretical in close contract with the practical side of industry...
...preserved by having each nation try to be stronger than every other or all others was abandoned as Utopian quite early in human history, and replaced by that of the Balance of Bower. This second system having failed egregiously in 1914, it is proposed to have nations maintain minimum armies and co-operate to resist aggression. A large body of American opinion however feels, as does the Editor of the CRIMSON, that, while the rest of the world should be encouraged to adopt the third system, America should revert to the first. The more fashionable way of working for this...
Again a request for volunteers to aid during the police shortage has been made. There are many men in the University who, outside of their studies, have little to do, and could very readily give their services. The Newton Constabulary needs fifty men, and this a minimum. Surely a number of men in College could give eight out of every forty-eight hours of their time. It is not a matter of having to neglect one's studies or other activities, or of being cut off from them. The significant fact is that the tour of duty will be adjusted...
...figures show that the cost to the University of instructing the average students was $389, while the highest tuition fee, that in the Medical School, was only $225, making a minimum average discrepancy of $164. And it is to be remembered that the tuition fee in the College and in the five principal graduate schools at this time was only $150, so the average difference would be much greater...
Each applicant must undergo a thorough, physical examination for appointment, the standard for physical fitness being the general physical requirements for military service. The minimum standard of vision will be 20-70 in each eye, correctable to 20-40 by glasses. In juries and defects which will not interfere with the performance of proper duties by the candidate, will be noted, but not regarded as disqualifying. No candidate will be accepted whose weight falls below 115 pounds without special authority from the Adjutant General of the Army...