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But it was not in the futile attitude of antiquarianism or ancestor-worship that Harvard staked its claim to the educational limelight. The year brought challenges, many of which have been successfully met and conquered. Taking up the gage of increasing public indifference to education, the college has spread its...
Lieutenant-Governor William Stoughton, Class of 1650, established the foundation, one of Harvard's oldest, in 1701. His scholarships are awarded on the basis of high scholastic achievement to any students in the University but go by preference to men from Dorchester.
Officially confirmed for Yalemen last week by their Alumni Weekly was the well-known fact that 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell, having reached the University's retirement age, will leave his post within the scholastic year. Yale's Corporation, the Alumni Weekly revealed, is already on...
What ruins the present system, however, are the unreasonable and hence unfulfilled claims it inflicts upon the instructors. By requiring them to do the extra work without pay or alleviation of ordinary duties University Hall has succeded, with notable exceptions, in repulsing valuable men already over-busy, and in discouraging...
The English Universities have long been renowned for the output of their presses. "The Oxford Companion to English Literature" and the "Cambridge Histories" hold positions of unique importance throughout British scholastic circles and Yale has ably followed their lead with the "Chronicles of America" and "Series of Younger Pocts". Such...