Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...School resumes its regular session...
...School has already set such a date. It will conduct a second session, beginning February 3, 1919 and running up to and including August 30, 1919. This session will include the same number of lectures as the ordinary session, will be conducted by the regular teaching staff and will give in all respects the same grade and quality of instruction and substantially the same opportunities as the ordinary session. Lectures in this special session will commence on Monday, February 3, 1919, and no student will be permitted to register after February...
...Association of American Universities held its twentieth annual meeting Wednesday and Thursday as the guest of the University. The first general session was held in the Faculty Room of University Hall on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, the topic being "The Organization and International Relationships of Universities and Colleges." Ten or fifteen minute addresses were given by Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge; President Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale; Professor John Joly, of Trinity College, University of Dublin; and Sir Henry Miers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. This was followed...
...second session in the Faculty Room at two o'clock, the topic of "The Effect of War on Education" was considered. President Jacob Gould Schurman, of Cornell University expressed his belief in the need of compulsory military training in colleges and universities. He said that Cornell had had in its curriculum two years of compulsory military training for three hours a week, but that he now advocated a combination of military and physical training to be prescribed for four years, with five hours of work a week. He said that West Point could not supply the officers necessary...
...Miss Caroline Spurgeon, professor in Bedford College, University of London; Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton; Dr. Edward Mewburn Walker, Of Queen's College Oxford; and professor Kirkby F. Smith, of Johns Hopkins University. Dean and Mrs. Edsall of the Medical School entertained the delegates at luncheon. The afternoon session met to consider "Problems Presented by the Student Army Training Corps, and the Future Military Training of Students." It was addressed by Brigadier-General Robert I Rees and President Richard C. Maclauirn of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...