Word: establishments
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...also been decided to establish a Harvard settlement in East Cambridge, which will be under the personal supervision of a number of Harvard graduates and which will serve as a headquarters for all Harvard men who are interested in work of this kind. By such a plan, it is hoped that classes of people may be reached who are not influenced by the various charitable organizations of Boston and Cambridge...
...meeting in Chicago of the leading universities of the country called by the University of California, it was decided to unite in a permanent organization in order to establish and maintain uniform standards for the various graduate degrees. President Eliot acted as chairman of the convention...
...meet this strain the boy must in some way be prepared; the school and the college must co-operate to lessen the violence of the transition. The main object of both school and college is the same-to establish character and to make that character more efficient through knowledge and mental discipline. The transition, then, should be merely the continuation in a wider field of a gradual growth already well started, There should be continuity of steadying, stimulating influences. At present, the only continuous influence of much force is athletics; but athletics, however open to criticisms for over-prominence...
...establish a continuity of mental and moral influences from school to college the great necessity is to build up gradually a sense of responsibility. The college must rely on that; it can not wisely impose further restrictions. The school should steadily increase the boys' responsibility and as steadily strengthen him to meet it. One method of doing this is the system of "Prefects," which has worked well where it has been tried, and has shown good results in the later life at college. The college, on its part, should co-operate through some system of optional Faculty advisers...
...been announced that a fund large enough to establish a School of Forestry at Yale has been made. Neither the size of the fund nor the names of the donors will be given out at present...