Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...salary of the teacher compared with that of the business or professional man has always been meagre, but the general scale of salaries is such that were it to continue, the College could hardly expect to attract teachers dependent for their support solely upon their earnings...
Satisfactory as is the general plan of the system now in use at the Widener Library, it contains one detail which would instantly attract the eye of any efficiency expert seeking to eliminate unnecessary motion. The trip to the second floor of the Library is the cause of many steps that might easily be saved if it were arranged to have the books returned at either the Lower Reading Room or at the desk on the first floor. Attendants are already present at both places and the books might be relayed to their proper places by means of a small...
President Lowell closes his report with the significant statement that by raising the tuition, Harvard has drawn on her last source of supply. If she is to maintain her present position among American universities and attract men who can adequately fill the chairs of the great professors whom she has lost by death or resignation during the present year, more funds must be forthcoming. The $10,000,000 endowment fund is the best answer which Harvard's graduates can give to this plea...
...present time is receiving $12,000 a year. Professors as well as ordinary men must regard the question of how to make two ends meet, and the university which offers a living salary will obtain the valuable man instead of the university which depends merely on its reputation to attract well-known scholars...
...exhibits the British "tank" which has been so successful on the western front against the Germans, will attract the greatest attention. Next is interest is the war trench, made under the supervision of Captain Norman Charles Thwaites, V.C., Fourth London Dragoon Guards. Captain Thwaites has been especially detailed by the British government to supervise the British exhibits at the different bazaars in this country...