Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...war has shown to France," he said in an interview yesterday, "that education, if it is to be of the greatest good, must be widely diffused among every class represented in the nation. University training must cease to be the privilege of any single group of society and become the common property...
...Whether this should be accomplished by the means of scholarships, by government aid, or in some other way, France has not yet decided but the ablest men of the country are now at work on the problem. The war taught France that education has passed from a luxury into a necessity. When early in the war, thousands of our officers were killed, we were forced to call on men from civil life and, naturally those best educated, best filled...
...France," he concluded, "the students are only now coming back to the universities and one cannot yet say definitely as to the extent of the changes the war has wrought but that education has cased to be a class privilege can no longer be doubted...
After five months of steady work the process of transforming the Naval Radio plant, established here during the war, into that of the University's new Engineering School establishment, was virtually completed last week when the renovating of Pierce Hall was brought to a close. As a result, buildings, in which a year ago some 6,000 blue jackets were being taught wireless telegraphy, have now been so thoroughly made over that they contain a most comprehensive group of modern electrical, sanitary, mechanical and civil engineering laboratories of the highest order, as well as ample accommodations for all the allied...
Practically all of the University's engineering buildings and laboratories were given over to government use during the war, and therefore after the Radio School's demobilization had been completed, the extensive remodelling process for the reorganized Harvard Engineering School were begun in earnest. In this work, Pierce Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system...