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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Despite the abolition of the popular select three-year course in its scientific school, Yale has a larger enrolment than it had in 1916. The university is undergoing a thorough reorganization, which includes departmentalization of the faculty and some changes in admission requirements. For the first time in Yale history, boys may now be admitted without Latin. Such students will receive the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, which was formerly conferred on those graduating from the Sheffield Scientific School. On its part "Sheff" will now offer only the degree of Bachelor of Science...
...assuredly none in New England, have a record comparable to Boston University's. In a single year enrolment has almost doubled. B. U. has been adding new departments with considerable regularity, and the result is that today it has about 5400 students. These figures include the registration in the popular night courses given in the College of Business Administration. This fall the university has opened a college of secretarial science, a school of education and a department of religious education and social service...
...plan of continuing rowing throughout the winter was originally devised for the Freshmen to satisfy their physical exercise requirements, but the new system has proved so popular among the upperclassmen that it has been enlarged to include all men who want the instruction. Many members of last year's Freshmen and University crews have been reporting regularly, and the interest shown in the present system will probably mean its permanent establishment here...
...amount necessary for the expenses will probably reach $200,000, the largest sum ever spent by this country for the Olympic games. The increased size of the team will add to the expenses, and the committee in charge will no doubt raise the money by popular subscription...
...American Legion is not making itself popular by the stand several of its posts have taken against the appearance of Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist. In constituting itself a dictator of artistic productions it allies itself against the very principles for which it fought. By its virtual prohibition of Mr. Kreisler's playing it takes an attitude that is Prussian in essence, and diametrically contrary to real Americanism. There is nothing un-American or unpatriotic in listening to great music. Art transcends international boundaries -- a thing is beautiful whether it is American, or German, or Czecho-Slovakian, in its origin...