Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...notice of the baseball battle that their learned sons wage today in New Haven. What could be more appropriate for this endeavor at brainy baseball than Friday, the thirteenth? The game may indicate how compulsory athletics will develop baseball players from the scholarly students. Perhaps the brains of a modern Aristotle may develop a new, elusive spit ball curve; perhaps a Phi Beta Kappa athlete may invent a method for getting home run hits every time at bat Who knows...
...special summer course in aeronautics is also being offered by the same organization. This course embraces a series of lectures on types of aircraft and their uses, illustrating their development from the earliest experimental forms to the modern craft used for commercial purposes. Instruction in navigation, the plotting of course, and the use of navigation instruments is also included in this course, and will be put in practice in actual flights with hydro-aeroplanes. The duration of this course is two months. Classes will be organized for July 1st and 15th, additional courses being provided for as conditions warrant...
...figures, the following number of positions are open in the various subjects called for: English, 41; Romance languages, 39; Mathematics, 23; Latin, either alone, or in combination with Greek, 14; Chemistry, 13; Physics, 10; Biology, 10; Economics, 9; Dramatics, Public Speaking, Debating, or Journalism, 6; Latin, in combination with modern languages and other subjects, 4; German, or French with German...
...such students a course in beginning Greek will be offered, though it is not required. Certain subjects are to be demanded of all students in the first two years, though we plan to allow freshmen to select one or two of the newer university studies like biology and modern history, to which they have previously not had access in the early years of their college course...
...most important change in the curriculum is the substitution of a new course which will take the place of the introductory courses in modern history and in philosophy formerly required of all candidates for the degree. This new course will serve as an introduction to history, philosophy, economics, and government, and will be taught by a state of instructors drawn from those departments...