Download or read book A Survey of Higher Education, 1916-1918. Bulletin, 1919 written by Samuel P. Capen and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1916-17 undoubtedly marks the close of an important epoch in the history of higher education in the United States. It is impossible to foretell as yet what changes will be wrought in the purposes, methods, and control of higher institutions by the war. But the events mentioned in the closing sections in this review have interrupted the old order, have to such an extent broken up the mold of academic thought, that the calm resumption of the processes and ideas of the past decade is unthinkable. It may therefore be worth while to consider very briefly what have been the main tendencies and achievements in the field of higher education during the past 25 years. This bulletin reviews the higher education from 1916 to 1918. The contents are divided into two parts. Part 1 contains: (1) Higher education in the period preceding the war: Standardizing agencies; (2) The junior college; (3) Fifty years of the land-grant colleges; (4) A new association, the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting; (5) University surveys and the survey movement; (6) The Supreme Court of Massachusetts sets aside the Harvard-Technology agreement; (7) The Rhodes scholarships; (8) The Carnegie pension and insurance schemes; (9) Academic freedom of speech; (10) Two State institutions attacked; (11) Special legislation touching higher education; and (12) Americanization. Part II contains: (1) The college and the war: Problems raised by the war; (2) Training and the effective organization of training agencies for national service; (3) University committee of the advisory commission of the Council of National Defense; (4) Independent action by colleges in preparation for war service; (5) Students and the draft; (6) Further efforts to secure Federal direction of civilian training agencies; (7) Committee on the relation of engineering schools to the Government; (8) Emergency (American) Council on Education; and (9) Committee on education and special training of the War Department. (Individual sections contain footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].