Word: lost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a speech given at the annual dinner of the Institute Alumni Association Saturday night, warned Boston and New England against losing supremacy in education as they had lost it in commerce, and touched upon the relations of the Institute with the University. His speech sounded the keynote of the addresses at the dedication of Walker Memorial, attended by more than 600 former students and guests, and urged adequate support of this section as an educational centre...
...This section has lost its supremacy in the realm of commerce and it may lose it in the realm of education too. Indeed, I believe that it will inevitably lose it if it dissinates its energies and scatters its forces. Its greatest asset is its record of achievement and its tradition of high purpose and exalted aim. Let us continue to aim high. If we do so and are properly supported we can build up in this community one of the very greatest, if not the greatest centres to be found anywhere in the world of science, pure and applied...
...finances of American universities are beginning to suffer from the effects of war. Princeton, Pennsylvania and Rutgers have all reported deficits due to decreased enrolments. They are not the only ones in this situation, for practically all American colleges have lost a large percentage of its students. upon whom they depend for much of their income. These three cases show the burden which is upon all colleges. So long as the war continues this tendency, accentuated by further reductions in enrolments, is due to become more widespread and disturbing...
...members of the Administrative Board for the year 1916-1917 were Professor C. P. Parker, Regent Brandegee, Professors Ward, Chase, Lamb, Lee and the Dean. Professor Parker died on December 2, 1916, and the Administrative Board thereby lost a member whose fidelity and effectiveness were a standard for his colleagues...
...contract the disease in Cambridge. Some 45 men were allowed to register late because they were held in the militia by the difficulty with Mexico. In nearly every instance their previous records were such as to enable them to maintain their standing even though the necessity of making up lost work forced a reduction in their program of studies for the first half-year...