Word: state
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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BOARD OF OVERSEERS. Meeting at 50 State St., Boston...
...Committee has also for some time been aware of the unsatisfactory state of the room, and has on hand a definite scheme for bettering matters and for future development. This plan contemplates...
...decided to make an annual appropriation from which a scholarship of $250 will be given each year to a member of the Freshman class. It will be assigned by preference to a graduate of the public schools of St. Paul or Minneapolis, but men from other parts of the state will also be eligible. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time in the fall of 1909. This form of gift to the University has been very popular among the alumni clubs since 1906, when the first scholarship was founded by the Harvard Club of Cleveland. Since that time...
...State Work in Tuberculosis. Dr. A. T. Cabot...
President Eliot spoke last Saturday before the Massachusetts State Child Labor Committee on the education of boys and girls as skilled laborers. He emphasized the fact that the rules of labor unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American...