Word: stress
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...attendance. For the second half-year, 1,650 students have registered, as against 1,700 for the first semester. The fact that M. I. T. has been able to hold this number,--90 percent of its normal registration,--in spite of the war, is due to the fact that stress has been laid upon the need for trained engineers, both during and after the war. In recognition of this need the Government has granted temporary exemption from the draft to students pursuing certain courses in technical institutions throughout the country...
Washington today is filled with college professors, who are drawn, like so many others, by that irresistable attraction which the capitol of any republic possesses in times of great stress or governmental reorganization. They are busily engaged in every department of government, on every form of war work. The intelligence department of the Army War College is paying them high salaries to translate the letters and documents of the German war prisoners; they are drawing charts and fixing prices in the Food Administration; many are organizing the resources of the country on the Council of National Defense. They have even...
...offering a more exact statement of our war aims assumes new interest. The many long and weary months of war are bound to cause a shifting of emphasis from the immaterial ideal with which we entered the war to the material results of victory. We are more apt to stress the importance of winning or losing a few miles of shell torn fields in northern France than of preventing the formation of a Mitteleuropa. Casualty lists and the first complaints at heavy taxes will deaden our interest in a possibly far-distant victory. Yet whether we believe in a military...
Professor Perry considered that a mistake is made at freshman receptions by laying too much stress upon what everyone should go out for. "A man must go in for the greatest things in life, not out for them." He advised them to search within themselves and inquire into the real aim of their college life and their object in being here. He did not declaim against, going out for the activities in college but said that here the Freshmen have a chance of a lifetime to find the most important thing in the world, but a chance which...
...trustees are in absolute agreement as to the policy which should be followed by the college in connection with the war; namely that the curriculum should be maintained unimpaired, and the departments of instruction should not be allowed to be weakened during this war which is bringing financial stress to the college. It is believed that through this policy, Dartmouth will be able to maintain its momentum and preserve its organization, for the purpose of giving opportunities of maximum usefulness during the war to the great number of men not yet of military age, or ineligible for other reasons...