Word: topic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...general discussions on Thursday were held at the Medical School. The topic considered in the morning was "The Future Place of the Humanities in Education." The principal speakers were 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...
...entire conference illustrated the very point on which the discussion of this subject revealed complete unanimity--the point that every gathering together of college graduates at this time should subordinate all its interests to the one interest of the war. Nothing which did not bear upon this all-embracing topic was discussed at the meeting of the secretaries, and the testimony they brought from their many institutions was to the effect that experience has already established the positive value of war-time reunons of alumni. The colleges of the country have conspicuously shown themselves to be centres of the strongest...
...Sciences, who is concentrating in economics and political studies under the Department of Economics, and is giving special attention to problems of state relation to industrial enterprize. Each candidate will be called on to write in the examination room an essay dealing with economics and political science. Choice of topic will be limited to a list not to be announced previous to the examination...