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...result of this changed policy, many Americans are given an opportunity to study abroad. In recent years the practicability characteristic of education in the United States has hindered all but the most scholarly from enjoying this privilege. Now, however, almost anyone who has sufficient knowledge of Latin and some other language is eligible. Students who desire to carry their work beyond their undergraduate life will benefit most, for they can now secure much easier than formerly a degree from a foreign university. Research scholars and those seeking the honors that can be won in a world-famed institution will welcome...
While Princeton has thus been increasing its teaching corps, Yale has been forced to accept a reduction of its faculty. That the war is exacting its toil of professors as well as of students is indicated by the recent leaves of absence granted to members of the New Haven teaching staff to engage in Government service. The tariff commission has called Dr. Bidwell as it called Professor Taussig of the University; a British committee of information has asked for the services of Professor Canby, who will represent American interests in the work to be performed; the City War Bureau...
...University Legal Aid Bureau, an organization of second and third-year Law men, who offer legal services free of charge to the poor of Cambridge, has opened a new department in connection with the recent Federal War Risk Insurance Act. A bureau of information and legal advice upon the complicated machinery of this new statue has been established by the organization at the headquarters of the Cambridge chapter of the Red Cross, 42 Brattle street. Of fice hours have been set from 2 until 4 o'clock on Tuesday Friday afternoon. Members acquainted with insurance law will be present...
...this time when Boston is economically and socially seeking to forget the whine of peace-loving individuals, the least we at College can do is to set aside pacific pettiness (as exemplified in recent communications to the CRIMSON) and look at our problem of setting back the College time-table in its war-time setting...
...recent quadrennial conference of the Student Volunteer Movement held at Northfield during the Christmas recess, the policy was adopted "that New England college Christian Association leaders should challenge 200,000 students to study, understand and apply on campus, in the army and in the life of the nation and the world, Christian principles of world democracy...