Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will introduce Dean L. S. Mayo '10, who will make a short address. This will be followed by a speech by E. A. Bacon '20, secretary-treasurer of the class, who will outline the plans for a memorial to the members of the Junior Class who died in the war...
Great educational reform was a much anticipated result of the war. In some colleges it has already come. Instead of being a movement allowing the undergraduates greater freedom, however, it has resulted in reducing the number of electives. Dartmouth is the latest to restrict the student in his choice of studies. This action has received favorable editorial comment in one of the Boston papers...
Although the University system is well known it may not be amiss to repeat it for the benefit of those who have entered since the war. Instead of forcing the student, while his opinions are yet unformed, to choose some arbitrary course of study, instead of surrounding him with rules and restrictions, his program of work is left to his own taste and initiative. Certain guiding principles must be complied with. Advice and suggestions are fully given; his proposed plan for study must be duly approved. It has always been considered, however, that he is old enough to choose...
...solely for the University, and that it was therefore not within the powers of the University to combine with M. I. T. Thereupon the departments of Engineering and Mining, with a new department of Industrial Chemistry, were re-organized in 1918 as the Harvard Engineering School. Owing to the war conditions here, no attempt was made to expand the school this year, but an important extension is planned for next fall...
...been arranged for the occasion. Mr. Ralph Osborne, baritone, accompanied by Mrs. Dudley Fitts, will render two groups of songs, in English and in French. One of these, "Le Credo Patriotique" by Henri Lavedon of the Academic Francaise, has been pronounced the greatest song composition relating to the war. The University Glee Club will also render a group of songs while the judges are deliberating on the best speakers. The Lee Wade II trials are open to the general public as well as to all members of the University...