Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...establishment of a "field university" in Europe immediately after the actual fighting ceases have just been announced by Professor Erskine of Columbia University. It will be for the purpose of educating American soldiers overseas during the period of demobilization. The enterprise came into being due to a survey of the educational needs of American soldiers abroad by A. S. Stokes, secretary of Yale University. The project will be financed by the Y. M. C. A., and controlled by it under the supervision of the military authorities...
Plans have been completed by the University Bureau of Vocational Guidance to make an extended survey of occupational opportunities for persons who have been physically handicapped. The proposed study will include the opportunities open in industrial establishments not only for crippled sailors and soldiers but for those who have been disabled by industrial accidents or other ordinary causes. The investigation has the hearty approval of the Massachusetts Industrial Accident Board; and letters have been received from the Surgeon General's Office at Washington and from the Federal Board for Vocational Education commending the undertaking...
Contrasted with the unusual requirements of our allies for food, the extraordinary needs of our armed forces, and our necessities, is the prospect of a small crop yield for the current season. The Department of Agriculture, in its annual survey, estimates a total production of our food staples less than that of any year since the beginning of the European War. For war purposes it matters not how little or how much these smaller crops exceed in value these of previous years. Armies and nations are fed with food, not with money; it is the physical material itself which must...
Other colleges in New England are making a survey of the industrial capabilities of their students and canvassing the needs of employers engaged in war work with a view to placing their men in the vacation war service for which they are individually fitted. Such a survey should be made at Harvard. There are many men here willing and able to give valuable service whose lack of acquaintance and connection with business concerns will prevent them rendering it. Such men, without an organized survey of capabilities and needs, are likely to drift into comparatively unimportant summer employment for which they...
...largest question," said President Maclaurin, "is undoubtedly that of our future relations with Harvard. Both institutions have a great record of achievement, Harvard incomparably the greater if we survey the whole field of education, but not greater in the particular field that the Institute has cultivated. Each institution is strong enough to play an independent part, and there will doubtless be some who will advocate that course...