Word: founding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Endowment Fund Committee, which is now conducting a world-wide campaign to raise fifteen, million dollars for providing the University with vitally needed mobile funds, has published statistics showing how much more is given out to students than is taken in by the University in tuition fees. It is found that the difference...
...information bureau for the benefit of new students being maintained by upper classmen in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House, will remain open every day this week from 8 o'clock until 6. Copies of all official pamphlets and catalogues will be found there, and information concerning rooms, room-mates, and board may be obtained...
Compulsory physical training is not meant to bear all its fruits during the Freshman year. Colleges which have tried it have found that a far greater number of their students have turned out for athletics during their last three years with compulsion during the first year, than under a strictly laissez-faire policy. Men who have never partaken in any sports or games in their school days will be drawn into them in college and will be able to enjoy them and profit by them throughout life. The spectacle of clever and talented men needlessly stricken with physical disability...
...Information Bureau at Phillips Brooks House will continue to be open all this week from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M., and the House will be open until 9 P. M. All circulars, pamphlets, and maps may be found here, also a list of furnished rooms and suites in private houses...
...Although America has made tremendous strides in education, the need and the opportunity are greater today than ever before for this work. Harvard desires to found a Graduate School of Education. The General Education Board has pledged $500,000 provided a fund of $2,000,000 is raised. $500,000 more is available leaving $1,000,000 more to be raised. With the starting of this school, Harvard will do a tremendous work in training teachers for the educational systems of America...