Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Blue-books have been placed at Leavitt and Peirce's and competitors are to sign up as soon as possible. Contestants for the University and novice championships who are not members of the University Fencers' Club will have to play an entry fee of one dollar per...
...student flyer will receive a retainer pay of $12 per year, but will not receive duty pay during the course of instruction at Squantum. Upon graduation, application will be made for a provisional commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. After three months' service under the provisional grade, the student will receive a confirmed rating by qualifying before a professional board...
...since the institution was opened to students in 1868. The university aims to give all its undergraduates enough military training to qualify them to become officers of volunteers. Military efficiency of the highest order is attained. Delinquencies in drill are treated like any other academic failure, and the five per cent, who receive failure in the drill take the work over. Officers of the rating of captain and lieutenant are given faculty rating as assistants...
...made up from tuition fees and other income, but this goes to show that the University is in this respect exceedingly poor. It is so poor in funds available to meet running expenses that over a period of 11 years, when general wages and commodities rose some 60 per cent., it was unable to grant any increase in teaching salaries...
Thus the average salary in the College jumped in 1906 from $1,565 to $1,642, an increase of $77 made eleven years ago. Since that time the average has gone up to $1,840, an additional increase of $198 in eleven years, or $18 per year. This increase was caused wholly by Promotions on the following scale now in force, and can in no sense be interpreted as a rise in salary scale...