Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...War has not deterred the Business School from adding two courses to its curriculum. Any expansion of this branch of the University increases its reputation in peace times and makes it more serviceable in times of strife. The policy of "business as usual" has been much criticized, but as the present ideal of the graduate school it deserves praise. To this body, however, the phrase means as not heedlessness to the patriotic demands made on every citizen, but rather increased service to the Government by learning now more than ever the principles of business. As the purpose of the training...
...training in organization and management. To educate citizens with this purpose in view becomes a service to the nation. In the years of reconstruction which are due to come, the aid of trained business men will be necessary. The growth of the graduate school shows progress whether in war or in peace...
Captain James P. Parker '96, N. N. V., has stated that he believes that this type of intensive training for commissions would be continued throughout the duration of the war. If the present plan is carried out, a new set of 150 officers will be graduated three or four times a year...
...have had trouble with objects and people made in Germany and transported to the United States, but at last some things of Teutonic origin have begun to do their share towards aiding the Allied cause. The German liners interned here during the war are the objects in question...
...When war was declared we had in our ports some of the finest of the German liners. The Vaterland, the largest ship in the world, the Kronprinzessin Cecllie, the Amerika, and several other "floating palaces," as well as a great number of freighters were just waiting for the United States to make use of them. Unfortunately, in spite of every precaution, the Germans were able to wreck the engines of these steamers. The Kaiser believed that none of these boats would all under the Stars and Stripes for many a year. He had not reckoned on our engineers...