Word: normale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going on at M. I. T. with an extremely small falling off in attendance. For the second half-year, 1,650 students have registered, as against 1,700 for the first semester. The fact that M. I. T. has been able to hold this number,--90 percent of its normal registration,--in spite of the war, is due to the fact that stress has been laid upon the need for trained engineers, both during and after the war. In recognition of this need the Government has granted temporary exemption from the draft to students pursuing certain courses in technical institutions...
...three-year course in military science at Yale, recently provided for, will be a decided step further away from the normal undergraduate curriculum and will provide an intensive schooling in every subject which will contribute directly to the training of an artillery officer. The course will begin next fall and continue as long as the war lasts. It will carry the candidate through the theory and practice of field artillery up to a point where a final course at a regular Reserve Officers' Training Corps will result in the production of an exceptionally capable officer...
Side by side with the discouraging news from Russia are printed the results of the Congressional investigation in the Hog Island shipyard, Philadelphia. Unchallenged evidence points out land sold to the Government for ten to twenty times its normal price, and thousands of dollars spent to no purpose by the contractors. The responsibility rests upon certain "great American capitalists," not named...
...Reverend Mr. James Edgar Gregg '97, S.T.B., principal elect of Hampton Normal and Agricultural School Institute Hampton, Va., will conduct morning prayers in the Faculty Room, University Hall, this morning at 8.45 o'clock. The service closes promptly at 9 o'clock...
...Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...