Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to determine the opinion of the University on the subject of universal military training, the CRIMSON will hold a straw vote on Wednesday, January 24. The question asked on the ballots will be: "Do you favor some form of universal military training in the United States...
...article in the New York Times of Sunday last in which the writer claims that the rowing authorities of Yale have under consideration a proposal to change the distance of the annual race with Harvard in June from four to three miles. I may state that the article in question contains the first news that the Yale rowing authorities have had of the Yale rowing authorities have had of the proposed change. But the Times does not rest content with its Sunday article. In the Monday edition, under the heading of 'Comment on Current Events in Sport,' we come upon...
...nearly two thirds of this amount has been promised and the remainder is practically assured. Other colleges and universities all over the country are asking for gifts to satisfy their respective needs. Now Harvard has appointed a Harvard Endowment Fund Committee to raise ten million dollars. There is little question that both the College proper and the Graduate Schools are in need of additional income. At present the laboratory facilities are far from ideal for best instructing the large classes in physics and chemistry. Enough has been written already about the glaring deficiencies of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Although there...
...that is proportionate to the increased earning powers of other professions and trades. Although Columbia is asking for thirty millions more, one of Columbia's most valuable professors at the present time is receiving $12,000 a year. Professors as well as ordinary men must regard the question of how to make two ends meet, and the university which offers a living salary will obtain the valuable man instead of the university which depends merely on its reputation to attract well-known scholars...
...full precious fellowships that are possible only in limited circles. Harvard considered the matter when the Freshman dormitories were established. Yale tried to eliminate certain abuses when it made tap day a college affair and not a public exhibition. Now Princeton is dealing with this very human question, and very likely the end will be not a complete revolution but some measure of real reform. --Boston Herald...