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...American Field Service Association was founded "to promote and maintain understanding and fraternal feeling between France and the United States". The original endowment provided by the Association is sufficient to maintain 12 annual fellowships. This amount has been supplemented by annual gifts and pledges by the officers, trustees, and friends so that during the past four years 61 Fellows were sent to France, 29 of whom had their fellowships renewed for an additional year. In all, 80 annual fellowships have been awarded in this period...
...expense, and will be opened to the public as a memorial. The simple life was no affectation for the peasant Millet. Often he and his wife did not eat, but gave the little food that they had to their children. Today, if Millet were alive, he could easily maintain a yacht from royalties of reproductions of The Angelus alone...
...this meet will determine the squad which will be sent to take part in the Pennsylvania Relays the week after the spring vacation. With not more than a week of practice behind them the squads which now number about 260, have begun to strike the pace which they will maintain during the remainder of the season...
...purpose of the Harvard Mission, as stated at its founding on June 5, 1904, is to "arouse, maintain and increase among undergraduates and alumni an intelligent interest and participation in the work of foreign missions and to secure men for positions in other countries." An effort has been made this year to make up a list of available positions abroad for men interested in foreign missionary work of every sort, as well as to compile a list of all men in the University who are interested in this work, and to arouse the missionary interest of Harvard...
...special committee on admission has come to the obvious conclusions and announced the expected decision. The University "must maintain its traditional policy of freedom from discrimination on the grounds of race or religion." A few critics will complain that the report, with so many additional suggestions, leaves the issue just as much open as ever; far more will notice with disappointment that the committee has stood in evident dread of arousing "damaging suspicion" through the popular press and that it has feared to recommend "so rational a method" as personal conference or intelligence tests because it "appears inexpedient...