Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...take a correspondence course and have the college come to them. The University of Wisconsin is notable among the institutions which provides such training. Through its Extension division one may take courses that are available to resident students, and a surprisingly varied body of people have responded to this plan. Among those listed is a locomotive engineer, who, having finished beginner's Latin, is going on with advanced work for pleasure. Railway clerks, men in mining camps, lawyers and doctors, ministers and court reporters are fellow students. A girl who gives her occupation as tub mending is deep...
...Technology volunteer engineer corps will begin work this afternoon on a purely voluntary basis. President Maclaurin, of the Institute, has submitted the present plan for carrying out the work of the corps as a substitute for the program laid out by the War Department for such a corps. The work, according to this plan, will consist of two hours a week, the first to be devoted to theoretical instruction, the second to practical work. The Engineers' Manual as issued by the War Department will be the text-book used. No official uniform will be worn by members of the corps...
...Butler says in his annual report that the university must have $30,000,000 if it is within a reasonable time to accomplish satisfactorily the tasks that are now laid upon it. It must have $12,000,000, and this is its most immediate need, to carry out the plan, in which the Presbyterian Hospital shares, for a medical centre and a graduate school of medicine and surgery. For the development by graduate instruction and original research in science, for the improvement of the public health and the mastery of obscure diseases, such an institution would be invaluable. A word...
Since only 6,000 seats will be available for the large delegations of students planning to go, it is desirable that members of the University who plan to go get there early. The doors will open at 6.30 o'clock; the music will begin at 7, and the service will start at 7.30. Student tickets will not be good for reserved seats after 7 o'clock...
...rule college students have favored the shorter night plan. Some believe that they can study better in the evening than during the day, maintaining that there is so much to be done that it seems impossible to spare much time for sleep. Others actually find that they can sit up most of the night and still be fresh and vigorous...