Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Teachers' Endowment Fund the principal of which now amounts to over $2,000,000. This fund was raised in 1905 from friends of the University for the express purpose of increasing the salaries in the College. The application of this income resulted in an increase of about 13 per cent to all teachers in the College. Since that time there has been very little advance, practically the same scale of salaries being now in force...
Yale recently voted four to one in favor of compulsory service and Harvard will hardly let herself be outdone. The 75 or 80 per cent, who will today vote "yes" will do so from the sincere conviction of a national need. Some have gained that conviction through personal dissatisfaction with the militia system; others from satisfaction with Plattsburg; while the rest, although they may have performed no service, will yet show their willingness, on principle, to do so. This 75 or 80 per cent. has already been congratulated in advance in your editorial of yesterday; they will be congratulated again...
...per cent. minority who oppose compulsory service will however still present some points of interest. Their stand has already been termed "socialistic and even anarchistic," apparently because they raised the question of what would be done with "the 200,000 who would refuse to obey such a law (as the Chamberlain bill) if passed." (Inasmuch as the country today contains well over 100,000 of the Society of Friends alone whose faith forbids them to take up arms it is difficult to see how this estimate of fact was either "socialistic or even anarchistic"). But "pacifists" such anti-conscriptionists doubtless...
...straw ballot held on January 18 80 per cent. of the Yale voters were in favor of some form of universal military training and, as representatives of the university, these five delegates will speak in support of such training...
...against 316 last winter. These figures are not included in the general enrolment, which is made up of undergraduates of the men's and women's colleges and of graduate students. In the past five years, the official records indicate, there has been an increase of a flat 20 per cent in the university registration. Undergraduate men this year number 778, against 765 last year. This gain is made despite the fact that the present freshman class of 237 is smaller by 19 than last year's Undergraduates at the Women's College total 232, an increase of 23. Graduate...