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...Like many another state, New York has a rule requiring four-year courses of instruction at chartered colleges. With the rising popularity and evident success of "junior colleges," especially in the West, for post-high-school-and-pre-university study, these rules are vanishing...
...smiled, wondered if all those behind him had paid their dues. There were floats: "Miss 100% America" and "Little Red School-house." During the next two days, the mighty Kloncilium met to ponder on next year's schemes, probably to re-elect Imperial Wizard Evans for another four-year term. The Klan program now has four aims...
There are reasons for Mrs. Catt's influence. Born on a farm, she worked her way through a four-year course at Grinnell College in three years, and the entire cost to her father was only $100. At 22 she was Superintendent of schools at Mason City, Iowa. At 25 she married a struggling country editor, Leo Chapman, and worked with him until his death less than two years later. At 30 she was soliciting advertisements for a trade paper in San Francisco. At 31 she married George W. Catt (who died 15 years later), and most...
...College for the year 1924-25 as tabulated in the reports of Dean Moore and Dean Greenough presents significant variations from the form. For example, whil the percentage of Seniors seeking distinction has increased in one year ten percent and in two years eighteen the proportion actually achieving it has slightly fallen off. The wish is evidently not father to the deed. The much heralded post-war renaissance of study seems at first sight not to go beyond the vaporings of a fatile ambition. If, however, the undoubted fact be weighed that the college's four-year tax on labor...
...fame was slow in coming to little Bertha. She went to Indiana University and completed a four-year course in three. Then she taught in the Classical High School of Worcester. About that time Henry Landes, a Hoosier who had been a student with her, took his A.M. in geology at Harvard. A few months later, on the day after New Year's, 1894, they were married. He had a job as assistant to the state geologist of New Jersey. The next fall he was made principal of the Rockland (Me.) High School and a year later was appointed...