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...caused him to realize that the most important factor in a good school is the teacher, and that schools and school systems need technically trained principals and superintendents as well as trained teachers. Accordingly in 1891 with characteristic courage--and in required courage in those days--he secured the assent of the governing boards of the University and of the Faculty to the appointment of a professor in a new field, the field of Education; and the appointment of an "Assistant Professor of the History and Art of Teaching" established at Harvard University the recognition of Education as a University...
...United States withholds its assent to Articles 156, 157 and 158 and reserves full liberty with respect to any controversy which may arise under said articles between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan...
...show how easy it is to settle back into the old rut: will the undergraduate do the same, and, despite his huge lesson and the agonizing cry of the world, say "I am not of you"? The present hurrah for some of the old fleshpots points to weak assent, but there are, on the other hand, some indications that men are beginning to look over their wall. One of these is the Harvard Magazine, the second number of which has just appeared. At last, praise be, a single publication has ventured to invite to its columns the whole university, instructors...
...mischief in Ireland with the obvious purpose of giving aid to the enemies of this country. With them the great mass of the true friends of Ireland in the United States have no alliance or association; to the methods of this element, as loyal Americans, they can never assent...
...this time certain. The attitude of the United States alone remains doubtful. No official statement has yet been issued by the State Department, but it is scarcely too much to say that our Government, if it does not actively oppose the measure, will at least refuse its assent. And this for very good reasons...