Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter accepting President Lowell's invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library...
...record-breaking enrolment is taking place in most of the colleges throughout the country, and to meet the new conditions caused by the great inrush of students, several of them are announcing changes in their curricula. The most important undergraduate change this year in Yale's reconstruction plans is the abolition of the select course of the Sheffield Scientific School and its transfer to the academic department, whose fine arts course it had duplicated...
Some new arrangements in class schedules will probably have to be made in order to secure sufficient classrooms for the large attendance. No dormitory rooms of any kind have been available for several weeks now, and the registrar's office is devoting a great part of the time to remedying this situation...
...Endowment Fund Committee has unearthed these facts not with a view toward recommending any increases in tuition fees, but for the sake of showing the 36,000 living graduates, undergraduates and former members of the University that their debt to Harvard is a great one and that there is pressing necessity for an immediate endowment. The University cannot, it is pointed out, rely on tuition fees to solve its financial difficulties...
...will compete against each other on an intramural basis in a system known as the St. Paul plan. Coaches and assistants will be provided to take charge of this work, so that the men will not suffer from unsupervised exertion. In the fall and spring this will take the great majority of those men not engaged on the regular squad. Should there be any left-overs who do not want to participate in any game there will be classes where those less experienced men may learn whatever sport they desire...