Word: provost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Corporation also voted to have a common Freshman year for the college and the Sheffield Scientific School, with a separate dean and faculty; to appoint a provost and dean of students who shall be concerned with morale and with student relations; and to transfer Latin from the group of required to elective subjects for admission to the college...
...University's permanent tribute to its fallen sons. From London a correspondent of the Bulletin has recently written: "At University College yesterday I saw one side of the corridor lined with photographs, four rows deep of graduates and students killed in this war. When one goes the provost writes a letter of sympathy and asks for the photograph. All are framed alike. This is a suggestion. Perhaps Harvard has a better scheme." The Roll of Honor recently set up is not a better, but merely another scheme; and one does not exclude the other. While the number of our dead...
...action on the plan to admit women students to the university. Failure to act was due probably to a student mass-meeting at which resolutions were passed calling upon the trustees to postpone action. As a result the matter was referred to a special committee to be appointed by Provost Smith. As the board will not meet again for three months, it will be impossible in any event to open the university to women until fall...
...possibility of a similar development presents itself in America. It is plainly foreshadowed by the Provost-Marshal General's prediction that the Government will find it necessary to include in the National Draft men of the ages from 18 to 21. Here is a serious possibility, but one which must be faced in all resolution. The Civil War was largely won by the men of these ages. Among them is much of the material which experience has shown best able to stand the strain of battle. The disturbance of their education, though most unfortunate, is less threatening to the country...
...week except Saturday and Sunday for two consecutive hours. To facilitate the training, all afternoon classes have been shortened from one hour to 45 minutes and are now starting at 1.30 instead of at 2 o'clock. The first regimental parade was held on Franklin Field before Provost Smith and Major Kelley on April 20, and the university band which has been formally incorporated in the Regiment as a military band was for the first time seen. Arrangements have been made to allow the Regiment to hold rifle practice at the Government range at Essington, below Philadelphia. The examinations...