Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee in charge of the arrangements for the M. I. T. intercollegiate conference to be held April 15 and 16 have made several important provisions for the prompt carrying on of the business of the meeting with a minimum amount of fruitless discussion. Each of the 41 colleges represented has been asked to send in to the executive committee in advance a definite list of the topics it wishes to have discussed. The executive committee will be in charge at all meetings, and will have the power to limit the discussion and argument to topics of major importance...
...very hard to throw over a tradition which has been made sacred by long enforcement, and the tradition, that a college education shall be sold at the minimum cost and not on a commercial basis has prevailed so long that its possible abolishment raises many questions of a vexatious character, such as exemption from taxation, etc. Unless we are mistaken, those who have sought to find a key to this problem of increasing costs and deficits in the increased cost of tuition have been compelled in that connection to accompany the solution with the acknowledgement that the number of scholarships...
...commenting on the work of the Committee for the improvement of instruction, President Lowell notes a marked rise in the minimum of work required for a degree; the result having been obtained by stiffening or eliminating the easier courses; by improving the grade of assistants; by rules or the choice of electives: and above all by maintaining a higher standard in the office of the Dean. The CRIMSON feels that the Committee has been successful in all but one of these fields,--the first named being the exception...
...certain amount to reach the average quota. Mr. Weist also gave some of the details and quotas at other colleges. Cornell has set a goal of $10,000, Illinois of $30,000. At Yale the committee in charge has determined to seek a maximum of $15,000 and a minimum of $10,000. At Yale the plans for the drive are near completion, and according to dispatches received last night the drive will get under way in the near future...
...raising of this Fund. Every possible assistance is needed if the campaign is to be brought to a successful conclusion. Over one-third of the Fund has been raised, and Massachusetts has done its share to date by contributing $600,000. Our goal for Massachusetts is a minimum of $1,000,000. We still have a long way to go. Remember, every $10 saves the life of a child. Let Harvard once more take the lead among colleges in this great effort