Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire educational system in Japan is controlled by the government, as in Germany. The schools are conducted on a very efficient basis, so that 98 per cent. of the children attend; but the percentage in the higher institutions is not as great as in America. Before the student goes to the university, he has several years of work which corresponds to the undergraduate work of this country. At the universities only the degree of M.A., without the intermediate one of A.B., is conferred...
...United States is past. All of the best land is occupied, and the farmer can no longer extract the largest crops, regardless of future fertility, and then move on to another tract of virgin soil. The land must be farmed carefully and scientifically; it must yield more per acre...
...work for 1,605 self-supporting undergraduates. During the past 30 days 595 men have been given jobs, while 353 additional interviews were held for the purpose of helping students to find work for themselves. Last year the bureau supplied 2,187 positions for working students, which was 80 per cent, of the applications field. Thirty-one different nationalities are registered with the bureau. Freshmen seeking assistance outnumber the seniors seven to one. Thus far this year only three undergraduates are known to have left the university for want of work...
...along amounted to $195,135. For the academic year 1914-15, the faculty numbered 72 professors, 10 assistant professor, 39 preceptors, 48 instructors, and 22 assistants a total of 195. The budget for this teaching staff now amounts to $401,310. The present teaching staff has therefore grown 93 per cent in the last decade, while the academic budget for salaries has more than doubled in this period...
...This increase in Princeton's salary budge for 10 years represents a capitalization at 4 per cent, of $5,154,375. The university, however, has noting like this sum as endowment. As a matter of fact. Princeton's invested funds for professional salaries yield about $105,000 annually and as the amount combined with the sums received from tuition and from fees, fails far short of the sun required every year for salaries, the alumni are called upon each year to meet a considerable deficit in the salary budget...