Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who worked his way through college by hard, constant, untiring labor outside of school hours, is President of Stanford University at a salary of $13,000 a year, the largest salary paid to any college president in the United States...
...Graduate Treasurer and Manager could be had than the reports of the financial standings of the different teams for last year. A summary of the expenses and receipts is given below. It will be seen by a comparison with figures of previous years that there has been a constant tendency to increase the expenditures, a necessary result of the present system of management and of the competition which exists between college teams. A recapitulation of the total expenses and receipts follows...
...Union glad of the instruction when it is given, but they ask for it beforehand. The call for instructors, printed in the CRIMSON earlier in the year, was the result of a direct request for instruction in those several subjects. The rooms of the Union are kept in pretty constant use during the evening, three classes often being carried on during the same hour. The evening is divided up into three hours from 7 till 10, and on every day in the week, except Wednesday there are classes up to at least 9 o'clock. Wednesday evenings after...
...Union has arranged the Yale debates which have given such a stimulus to the interest in speaking; the Harvard Union offers to the undergraduates their only opportunities to speak (outside of English VI), the Harvard Union has the recognition and encouragement of the faculty, some of whom are the constant advisors of its officers. What more could a new society do? And if a new society could do no more, what need is there...
...instead of the college dictating to the schools what they shall do it should be, in a certain sense, the reverse. The schools should so educate their pupils that, when the proper time comes, they will be able easily and naturally to enter college. There should be such a constant and even growth in preparatory education that college should follow naturally after the schools and students be fitted to enter without the necessity of being strictly questioned as to their fitness. There should be a natural sequence. Until this natural sequence comes there must be this false relation between...