Word: types
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorial raises an important point about the responsibility of college graduates for the encouragement of a certain type of semi-professionalism in college athletics. Fortunately, the reports of the Chairman of the Athletic Committee lead us to believe that in recent years public opinion has improved in this respect...
...business world. But the demand for trained teachers of business subjects is growing and it ought to be one of the functions of the School to meet this demand. Being itself on a graduate basis and maintaining a standard of work which is almost unique among institutions of its type, it has a special obligation in that regard. As for the Ph. D. degree, that of itself would matter little. But nearly all the institutions of higher education in this country seem to regard the holding of that degree as one of the passports to a teaching position. Some college...
...Since therefore none of the existing types seemed to be either suitable to Columbia conditions or in harmony with sound pedagogical principles, it was decided to put the dividing line between college and professional work at the end of the second year, largely for the reasons mentioned above. Students will therefore be admitted to the Columbia School who have completed two years of college work or its equivalent, and the School of Business will be put on the same basis as the Medical School, the School of Architecture, and the School of Journalism. This arrangement makes possible the attainment...
...this very interesting and useful branch of the service, in that the company will go to Fort Ethan Allen with two other machine gun organizations on July 9 and work for two weeks with the U. S. Army regulars. Men with previous experience are preferred, since those in this type of work are trained infantrymen, but raw men will be accepted. They will be given a thorough training in infantry work, in addition to preliminary machine gun drill...
...poetry of the current issue is of more or less the respectable type; conventional and imitative, and greatly overshadowed by the prose contributions. W. A. Norris '18, however, has written a sonnet which would escape the brunt of the foregoing remark. "In Dawn" contains some very lovely lines. The vers libre of B. P. Clark '16 succeeds tolerably well until the last line, "And one star drifting in the east," for that one star in the east has had to do so much labor in the interest of the Muses, that the most of us feel it is time...