Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from other colleges have spoken to the present writer with approbation of the CRIMSON's editorials, while condemning certain other features. As for "vapidity," "straddling," let those answer who remember the CRIMSON's pacifist days, or the attacks on crew policy, or the CRIMSON's insist ant demand for war long before it was declared. Some of these editorial stands aroused antagonism which has not yet died out. Before the war, a committee of graduates collected a fund and sent selected men to flying schools to learn aviation. One of the men chosen was a CRIMSON editor, but after...
...Citizenship first; scholarship and culture second" appears to be the new slogan of most American colleges and universities in their post war reconstruction. Broad and sweeping changes in the entrance requirements and in the curricula is the form which this new movement has taken...
...Spanish has come into wider favor. Some are teaching navigation for the first time. In nearly all stress is being laid on the courses which make for better citizenship and service to the State rather than for academic scholarship. These changes are more markedly a result of the war than the changes in entrance requirements. An acute shortage of teachers is apparent in some quarters. In practically all the institutions special preparations are being made to admit returned soldiers...
...Cornell College courses on business administration and courses which are valuable in international relations were established in the Department of Economics and Sociology. During the war and since the war changes have been made also in the Department of Mathematics. It is now enlarged into the departments of both pure and applied mathematics, the latter including some of the fundamentals of engineering that are closely allied with mathematics. There has been a large increase in enrollment in French and Spanish, with a corresponding decrease in German, and all three languages are still offered and will be offered...
...first essential change made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology as a result of the war was the introduction in the Division of Science and Engineering of a course that will include a general history of science and engineering, principles of economics, corporations and finance, labor problems, civics and citizenship, international relations, and English literature. Increased attention will be given to practice in public speaking...