Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leaning toward the classics is shown by the disappearance of Sophocles, Petronius, and Ovid. O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, Conrad and others of similar nature are found to offer special temptation. For a time there were fatalities among the war books, but they later returned to service on the shelves...
...Engineering is a new and rapidly growing profession, already subdivided into numerous well-developed special fields, some of them being distinct professions. Mechanical engineering includes engines, gas and water motors, machines, automobiles, refrigeration, power plants. Electrical Engineering deals with generators, motors, lighting, telephones and telegraphs, wireless telegraphy, and in general with the electric generation, distribution and use of power. Civil Engineering includes structures of wood, masonry and metals; reinforced concrete; roads and railroads; water supply, and water power; canals, river and harbor works. Sanitary Engineering is concerned in safeguarding food and water supplies, in the disposal of community wastes...
...among the student body of a common gathering place, of a headquarters for all phases of student activities. That such a need has ceased to exist we should hardly care to assert. Nevertheless with the development of student life and equipment for student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once fulfilled are now to a large extent better fulfilled elsewhere. The CRIMSON has moved to more adequate quarters in a building of its own. The Reading Rooms in Widener Library naturally present themselves to one's mind before the Reading Room in the Union...
...Graduate School of Business Administration has announced a special session for men returning from the service, the work for the remaining year being divided into two terms. The first of these will last from January 27 to May 10, the second from May 12 to August 30. In addition to the year's work now in progress the School offers this year a special program of first and second-year courses. For these courses the entrance requirements of a degree from an approved college or scientific school will be modified so as to admit men who were entitled to senior...
...methods developed by the psychological examiners and the Committee on Classification will be useful in the industrial and educational fields. In the investigation of special problems much has been learned of theoretical value to the science itself