Word: establishments
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...University chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary debating fraternity, has established a bureau to help high schools and small colleges organize debating societies and establish debating systems. The establishment of this bureau is the result of numerous appeals that have been made to the chapter for assistance of this kind. The service will be in the nature of help in organization, and not in coaching, and will be confined to schools and colleges in Boston and its immediate vicinity...
...plays has been serious from the outset. Sanders Theatre could not be used on account of the wear and tear of production and the Workshop had to turn to the Agassiz House Theatre, which is, however, rather small. This lack of a large theatre made it necessary to establish a definite limited 47 Workshop audience. This now numbers 400 and consists of all former members of the Workshop and people interested in the dramatic arts who have been nominated by two members of the audience. A condition of membership in the audience requires members to write and send...
...addition to the exchange of professors, several fellowships have been established by friends of the Fine Arts departments of both universities to send graduate students from the University to Princeton, and from Princeton to Cambridge for study in the Fine Arts Department of the University. Next year a student will be chosen by the department to represent the University with a fellowship award of $750. The club will also establish several traveling scholarships to permit students to pursue their work in Europe...
...Shaler Memorial Fund, founded to establish one or more professorships of natural history, or of science in general, at Beraea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, has already received large contributions from various parts of the country. Professor Shaler, for many years a professor of geology at the University, was a native Kentuckian and very interested in the mountain districts of his state...
...guide for students who honestly need outside assistance in their work, but do not wish to resort to any of the doubtful organizations which make it their profession to put a man through an examination on a minimum of knowledge. Eventually, perhaps, the Phi Beta Kappa Bureau can establish itself as a clearing-house for recommended tutors and students who can profit by their services. By placing its stamp of approval on properly qualified tutors and their methods, it should eventually help to eliminate much of the "boot-leg" element in professional tutoring. The Phi Beta Kappa has been regarded...