Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country day institutions. The requirements are almost uniformly athletics, music, and dramatics. Mathematics and science are the subjects most frequently called for, but there is also a great demand for men with historical and economic training sufficient to lead classes in citizenship. Inexperienced men without preparation for teaching are less and less in demand. Opportunities are offered for teaching in the following states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island...
...Faculty. It is the reputation of great teaching which attracts men to the college and which impels students to seek scholastic attainment. The greatest difficulty Harvard now faces is the lack of funds; professors have been asked to accept positions here, in some cases, for $2,000 less than they were getting. Such a situation cannot but keep able men from coming here...
...mend clothes and sew on buttons free." Why wives? If daughters of the professors could be drafted for this activity, supported if need be by young society girls whose war work is now ending, the marriage rate of Massachusetts would go up with a bound, and there would be less complaint in future about race suicide in our educated class. New York Times...
Nobody will deny the good intentions of the ladies of Cambridge in their endeavors to help the undergraduates, but the result of their efforts has been detrimental to the University. No college man wants to be "Mothered", still less does he hanker after fudge and a place where his buttons may be sewn on. Civilian life with all its freedom is quite a different thing from the restrictions of military or naval life. The well-intentioned ladies have misinterpreted the needs and requirements of the students...
...corporation also voted to increase salaries of all full time professors now receiving less than $4,000 a yet to $4,000 beginning with the next fiscal year...