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...voted at the meeting to establish a class fund which would meet the expenses of a class picnic in May and cover the cost of publishing a list of all members of the class with their probable addresses for next year...
...faces the dual task of simultaneous development of a representative form of government and the development of a public school system to form the foundation for such a government, and when we realize how closely these two are dependent one on the other, we see that to attempt to establish a republic before the people, by education, are prepared for it, or attempt to establish public schools before the government is sufficiently able to finance them, gives a combination which justifies the statement that China faces the greatest educational problem of all time. When the size of China is taken...
...most important indications of this is the rapid development of modern education in China, in the time that I have been there. In 1903 there were only 1247 students in all schools of a modern sort under Chinese auspices, and yet, when in September, 1905, the government determined to establish a general system of public schools, before the end of that year they had established 5000 such, going so far as to convert Buddhist and Taoist temples into schoolrooms; and in 1918 under government auspices alone there were 134,000 schools and 4,500,000 students. This certainly is some...
...most interesting of the many suggestions received by the trustees of the White Fund, for the disposal of the $5,000,000 left to the city of Boston is that the money should be used, in part at least, to establish a civic theatre, where a first class company could be maintained by the city to give popular play of the first rank...
...shall always entertain a lively sense of the great kindness and hospitality of Phillips Brooks House. "Piety, charity, and hospitality', have become through the influence of the House my watchwords and motto throughout my life. It has been my life-long ambition to establish a Phillips Brooks House here in Calcutta University for the good of the student body and I hope I will be successful in it. The one real and lasting influence in my Harvard life is the Brooks House Association...