Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Citizenship first; scholarship and culture second" appears to be the new slogan of most American colleges and universities in their post war reconstruction. Broad and sweeping changes in the entrance requirements and in the curricula is the form which this new movement has taken...
...Wisconsin a twelve-week course in auto mechanics, open to grammar school graduates over 18 years of age, has been developed as a result of the auto course given to about 700 soldiers in the Students' Army Training Corps. It is now beginning its second session. A semi-weekly lecture course in the problems of peace, a course in which about 600 are enrolled, has succeeded the war lecture course which was given during...
...University has seen that ideas are not the result of any special curriculum, but of a system which encourages the student to think. Two factors are preeminent to the success of such a system. First, many instructors who stimulate thought; second, an opportunity for instructors to meet the undergraduates for discussion and an emphasis on a general grasp of the subject rather than a knowledge of details. The second factor the University has already grasped and acted upon; it remains to develop the first. This will take time. In the meanwhile it is deeply satisfactory to know that Harvard...
...however, enlistment lags in such fashion that the Marine authorities see fit to issue a second appeal, the whole matter assumes a different aspect. It then becomes no less than a duty for college men, especially such as would otherwise spend, a comparatively useless summer in white flannels at the seashore, to look up the Marine recruiting Sergeant on Tremont Row, opp. Scollaly Square, and obtain, all further details with a view to signing...
...Second.--Stroke, Heminway; 7, Allen; 6, Ewing; 5, Brownell; 4, Moulton; 3, Benson; 2, Hord; bow, Hare; coxswain, Lashar...