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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean of Administration at the University of Minnesota, quarrelled with the State Board of Education about money matters and resigned. Last week Idaho acquired for its eighth president Mervin Gordon Neale, who has also served time on the Minnesota faculty but whose chief work was done at his alma mater, the University of Missouri, where he has been Dean of Education since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Presidents | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Cornell university proclaimed last week a "new world's record in support of edu-cation." The first week in April, Cornellmen all over the U. S. and Canada were solicited for alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cornell's Record | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...college itself, to its morale, its purpose, can not be minimized. Too often have those who wail against hilarious alumni and the general problem which they create failed to realize that in most cases the colleges have offered them nothing but athletic events as the connecting link with alma mater. This being the case, the college as well as the alumni has suffered. With alumni colleges coming into being, however, a new interest in the college, a more intelligent and appreciative interest, will grow up among the alumni. It will be an interest which will weld the alumni body more...

Author: By In "school and Thomas W. Pomeroy jr., S | Title: Teaching the Old Dog | 6/19/1930 | See Source »

Rumo(u)r has it that comment of a similar nature has been prevalent in the sister institution, Alma Mater of Sir Isaac Newton, Pitt and Paul Melon. The latter was reported in your good columns as having stroked the crew of Emmanuel College to victory in the annual winter regatta. Can you tell us what was meant by "the annual winter regatta" and how long this institution has existed at Cambridge-so that we may have the pleasure of witnessing it on the occasion of its recurrence? Can you also tell us when Mr. Paul Melon took up residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...such a history has been made in the current year. The author of the revolution is Edward S. Harkness of New York. As wise as he is generous, he has given in separate sums and under somewhat diverse conditions about 25,000,000 to his alma mater, Yale, and to Harvard for the building and for the furnishing of proper dormitories. Through his munificence Harvard is already building houses each worthy to be made a home. The movement historically is a transfer of the social conditions obtained in women's colleges from the first years at Vassar, to the colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Year Just Closing Has Few Vital Changes But Includes Many Events of Secondary Interest | 5/29/1930 | See Source »

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