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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library at Louvain...
...increased demand is being met with by the Appointment Office for men to teach in the Far East, and the need has never been so urgent as it is now. Word has been received of several positions which are open. Five men are needed as teachers in the Canton Christian College (China), with Business Administration and English as subjects. O. E. Pomroy '05, 61 Sparks street, Cambridge is in charge of securing these...
There is a vacancy is Tsing Hua College, Pekin, in the department of French. An opportunity is also offered to teach English in a college in Japan. The name of the institution in this instance is withheld on request, but will be furnished at the Appointment Office. A number of positions are open as well on the staff of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, a non-sectarian organization. The following five calls have been received from the Fukien Union University; teacher of Botany, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, General Physics, Electrical Physics. The teaching would be done in English. In view...
...chief value of a college education lies, not in any specific facts the student may learn, but in a general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...with high hopes, and genuine thankfulness that the CRIMSON learns of the generous appropriation granted to the University toward the foundation of a School of Education. Not only has school-teaching fallen into the position of a disgracefully neglected profession in America, but even the more specialized and advanced scholars who teach in our colleges are forced to pursue their calling in the face of popular indifference toward educational matters such as is almost unheard of in England and on the Continent. This indifference has manifested itself in what often amounts to popular resistance toward all but the most rudimentary...