Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exchange professorship idea in our colleges should be the establishment of an exchange between institutions of the North and the South. Harvard has already its exchanges with Europe and with a group of four Western colleges. It is time that we should give like recognition to a great section of our country which has several institutions that are the peers of many in the North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects on a plane of equality...
...true that the popular recrudescence of this tradition has had to bide its time. Today an educational guide to the South cannot concern itself too exclusively with the great institutions before mentioned. They merely stand among the leaders in a section where even the masses of the people are newly turning their faces to the light of education. There has been a great increase in the numbers of students enrolled in the high schools. University extension work and summer school courses are attracting widespread attention. It is bot a matter of numbers alone. in the spirit of these students, there...
...experience of value to some of our Northern professors. And if they themselves taught, and taught finely, in their Southern chairs, they would have a large opportunity for correcting some of the notions that have grown up about New England, to the detriment of our relations with many another section of the county. We might hope to achieve a new rating also in the eyes of those Southern professors who would come to the North in exchange. Their gracious courtesy has ever been open to fresh conviction. If exchange professorships can be arranged with the South we shall have much...
...further purpose of this meeting will be to outline the requirements for admission to the Aviation Section. According to the statement recently issued by the Signal Corps of the United States Army, a commission in the Aviation Section may be obtained in approximately six months' time at one of the Government flying schools. The War Department has intimated that if there is a sufficient number of men at the University desiring to take the training, a Government aviation school will be established at Squantum. It was further brought out in this statement that the War Department will pay all expenses...
There are at present three advanced aviation schools at which the prospective aviator may obtain his commission in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. These are located on Long Island, in Illinois and in California. In addition to these schools, preliminary training at the schools in eastern New York was made possible for undergraduates last summer through the undergraduates' flying corps...