Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Freshmen entering the University next Monday will be in sharp contrast to the "special" class, which less than two months ago, was housed in the Freshman dormitories in a three day extraordinary course from July 28 to July 30. The "specials" were former graduates attending the "Old Grads' Summer School" and, who now, as district chairmen, will direct the raising of the $15,000,000 endowment fund sought by the University. For months the "Old Grads" have been planning their work and an October 1 will begin the actual task of canvassing Harvard men for contributions to the Endowment Fund...
...January 1, 1918, Dean Gay was appointed Special Expert on the United States Shipping Board and on February 11, 1918, was made Director of the Division of Planning and Statistics and was engaged to supervise the reduction of imports that tonnage might be conserved for war purposes. At this same time he was appointed a member of the War Trade Board to represent the Shipping Board and to co-ordinate the enforcement of import restrictions. Subsequently he was made Director of the Division of Planning and Statistics of the War Industries Board as well as of that department...
...Matthew Luce, regent, has been appointed to act as an advisory body to all foreign students in the University. This committee, which is an innovation this fall, contains Faculty and student representatives assigned to each of the national groups. The head of each group is to act as special adviser to all students of the nations which he represents. This committee has been organized as a result of the efforts of Phillips Brooks House to assist foreign members of the University...
...list of furnished rooms for rent in Cambridge homes has been printed and may be obtained at the Information Bureau at Phillips Brooks House. All the rooms are in the vicinity of Harvard Square or the Law School. For married graduate students, special suites with house-keeping facilities are provided. As all the rooms in the college dormitories rented by the Bursar have been taken, these private suites will provide a substitute this year for regular college rooms...
...past summer has been practically a special term as far as the number of men in Cambridge was concerned. The first special session of the Summer School included 1,729 men and women students, and the second term had 647 registered. Both the Law School and the Graduate School of Business Administration had special sessions, the former with 307 men and the latter with 127; the work of the Medical School and the Engineering School also ran over into the summer months, to make it possible for those men who had dropped out to enter the army or navy during...