Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teaching and study of the sciences. The old-line colleges are away below their normal strength in students, but the technical institutions are filled to the brim and most of them are now wondering what they will do with the new influx which seems certain to come next autumn. The war has developed technical industries to an unprecedented extent in this country, and the call for trained men is far greater than it ever was before. The need for chemical engineers, for marine architects, for men skilled in machine designing, is far beyond the available supply. Hence it is that...
...agree that for those who entered military service in the Winter of 1917, or in the Winter of 1918; the Autumn of 1916-1917 or the Autumn of 1917-1918 shall be combined with the Spring of 1919 and regarded as constituting with it a single academic year...
...Pierce has held the position of Secretary to the Corporation since the autumn of 1914. He is also Business Director of the Medical School, Trustee of the Boston Home for Incurables, member of the Board of Managers of the Farm and Trade School and Treasurer and Trustee of Milton Academy. Previous to 1914 Mr. Pierce was Secretary of the Alumni Association...
...much change in the old system of intercollegiate athletics as a result of the war. At nearly all the larger institutions the plans for next spring are being made along practically the old lines and it is altogether probable that the same will be true of next autumn's fooball schedule when the time comes. Educators have had a good deal to say about the excellent opportunity for reform which was afforded the colleges by reason of the suspension of intercollegiate athletics during the war; but during this period no satisfactory substitute for the old plan of intensive sport...
...opinion of the Committee on Schedules students should be admitted at the beginning of the winter term in every possible case to those courses which began in the autumn term...