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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement by Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the Navy Department plans to establish a series of naval courses at the University adds one more opportunity for college men to show themselves ready to respond to the call of the times. The government is now fully awake to the imperative need for the nation so to prepare itself that it shall be capable to defend its people at all times from the ravages of an unexpected enemy...
...good to learn that the cause of underpaid college instructors has finally received recognition from one university at least. The raise in the salaries of instructors and assistant professors, which has just been announced-at Yale University, is a tardy compensation for the great increase in living expenses that has occurred during the last few years. Though the action is belated indeed, yet it is a pioneer movement among educational institutions in this respect...
...duration of the war, will be resumed in October of this year. Provisions are made for two scholarships of three hundred pounds a year from each state in the Union. Candidates may try for appointments to Oxford either from the state in which they reside or the one in which they have received the major part of their education...
...value of freedom as the great educator of man has always been one of President Eliot's beliefs. For this reason, he introduced the free elective system to allow every student to choose the subjects for which he felt a natural inclination. He realized that no work could be done happily and well which did not really interest the worker...
...professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred and seventy-five degrees were given by the University, while in 1909, the date of his retirement, over one thousand degrees were granted...