Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...division of Engineering Sciences has recently published an announcement of changes in its courses. Whereas this Department has often been regarded as merely a preparatory stage for men intending to continue their professional studies in the School of Engineering after graduation, it has always endeavored to adapt the courses to college students looking forward to executive positions in business and industrial life, and to those who appreciate the educational value of this kind of training...
...speakers who are on the program for tonight will offer a presentation of the aims, difficulties and results of work with boys' clubs, night schools and other forms of the social service work to which university students are best able to adapt themselves with their College activities...
...work of the team this afternoon will be watched with great interest as the first explanation of Coach Haughton's conception of the altered game. The team seems remarkably far along for so early in the year, and the old players adapt themselves to new plays and formations without apparent friction...
...differences in cost of constructing, operating and repairing ships under the American flag and under foreign flags. Even did subsidies offset these disadvantages, it would be at an unjustifiably enormous expense. Moreover, subsidies are a bad business and economic proportion, for they are only temporary and do not adapt themselves to changes in economic conditions, for there is no relation between subsidies and markets...
...rules committee will meet April 29 and definitely decide upon the rules for next season. After that voluntary practice will be held in order that the men may adapt themselves to the new conditions and develop new formations. Nobody was injured this spring which is a much better record than the squad has had for several years...