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...Particulars. One Frank S. Myers was appointed postmaster at Portland, Ore., by President Wilson in 1917, was removed by the President in January, 1920. Mr. Myers sued for salary for the balance of his four-year term...
...this four-year period, the public debt will have been reduced about...
...than the raising of the fee by the Dental School is its announcement that hereafter a two-year term in college will be sufficient to secure admittance to the school. This replaces the old ruling that a man must have an A.B. or S.B. degree to secure admittance. The four-year course will not be changed...
...foresee in this principle, which places all importance upon training, the seeds of revolution in college methods. If young Oswald of the future would become a poet, he will enter college for a four-year treatment in courses especially chosen for the making of that peculiar product. At graduation the college will turn him loose on the world labeled "poet", with a written guarantee of so many sonnets an hour or money back. Such a plan has all the advantages of simplicity and certainty which present methods so signally lack...
...There is a growing belief in some academic quarters that the day of the old four-year college course is over. Following the high school, it is prophesied there will be two years of junior college, similar to the preprofessional work in our larger universities. After those two years, in character like the closing years of the French lycée or the German gymnasium, a student will naturally move into some line of special professional or scholarly training in the university...