Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brings with it a new realization of the sacrifice that America has already made for the peace of the world. There is a daily lengthening list of the best and strongest of our young men who have given their lives. Of these is William Cheney. At the declaration of war he enlisted immediately in the Aviation Service, for which he had begun his preparation while a boy at St. Mark's School, a year before the war began. Though only a Freshman in Harvard College, and below the age at which the nation has called forth its young...
...have been taken to tabulate for future Cambridge students the facilities for research work in the great American centres of study. Of the 4,000 undergraduates of Cambridge University there are only 200 remaining in Cambridge, and work done in this direction can hardly be operative until after the war...
...war has brought about a change in the Tufts curriculum. Two new intensive emergency courses, one in chemistry, and the other in industrial electricity, have been announced by President Bumpus, as a result of the nation's imperative demand for technically trained...
...war emergency course in chemistry is designed to meet promptly the impending shortage in men trained in chemistry, for service in Government and industrial laboratories. The work of the course will extend over three terms: the first from February 18 to June 15; the second from July 1 to September 21; and the third from October 7 to February 8, 1919. The required duties will include attendance at lectures, laboratory practice in general and inorganic chemistry, gas analysis, organic chemistry, industrial chemistry and mathematics...
...war emergency course in industrial electricity will be offered by the Engineering School to graduates of high schools or seniors in such schools as are approved by the college. This course is designed to prepare for technical positions students who are subject to the national draft or to fit students not within draft age, to fill positions in electrical industries, made vacant by the drafting of electrical engineers. Applications for admission to this course will be considered from students presenting certificates from their school principals testifying as to their fitness for scientific work. The work will be distributed over three...