Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...original purpose of American colleges was mainly to train men for the ministry, but so it is no longer. Harvard, founded chiefly to educate clergymen, now gives to this profession barely two per cent. of her graduates; Yale, begun under similar impulses, now contributes a meagre three per cent. This and other interesting changes in the professions favored by college graduates are described in a bulletin by Bailey B. Burritt on "Professional Distribution of University and College Graduates," just issued by the United States Bureau of Education...
...Rhodes Scholarships of three hundred pounds per annum have again been offered to American students for a period of residence of three years, 1913-1916 at Oxford University. The requirements state that candidates must be American born, unmarried, and between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five. The scholastic requirements may be had in full by application to the "chairman of the Committee of Selection for the Rhodes Scholarship," 5 University Hall...
...whole editions of several books and these are now on sale at the Co-operative. For use in Economics 1, which has an enrollment of over 500 students, an entire edition (1000 sets) of Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics" was prepared. These books will be sold at $3 per set of two volumes, and sales will participate in the Co-operative's regular dividend. Hitherto the price has been $4. It is stipulated in the Co-operative's contract with the publishers, however, that the special edition shall be sold only to members of the University...
...students in Government 1 an entire edition of President Lowell's "Government of England" has been secured. Copies of this work will also be sold at $3 per set of two volumes, less the usual dividend. An edition of Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government" is also in the press and will shortly be placed on sale at 75 cents per copy. All these books are uniformly bound in a durable binding of dark green; the paper and plates are the same as those used in the regular trade editions. If the experiment is successful, the directors of the Co-operative...
...remarks with excellent precision at the duties of the college men in the present period of our history, showing especially how their aid may be utilized in the present campaign. Where there is so much unrest among the foreign element in our manufacturing cities, he said the comparatively small per cent. of the young men of the country who have the advantage of a college education should go out among the people whose language they have learned and by gaining an insight into their life render themselves capable of making them understand the proper course to pursue as citizens...