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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the pre-Mid Year competitions for the CRIMSON board formally opened last night in the news and photographic departments, additional candidates may still report for the work...
Rosenwald Fund. In 1914, Julius Rosenwald, most notable of Chicago philanthropists, established a co-operative fund for helping southern Negroes to education. By report last week 3,400 school buildings have since been erected. Public school authorities have contributed $8,402,580 to the total cost of the scheme, white citizens $694,142, Negro citizens $3,110,410 and the Rosenwald Fund $2,621,814. Alfred K. Stern, executive director of the Fund, commenting on this report, stated in The Survey: "The most outstanding feature to my mind is the fact that the Negroes have contributed about as much...
Carnegie Fund. The Carnegie Corporation, by report just out, made grants of $6,000,000 its last fiscal year. To Libraries, $4,500,000 was given; to Fine Arts, $600,000; to research, $375,000; for adult education, $300,000. Million dollar grants by educational foundations are reported to be rarer. There are still 50,000,000 U. S. and Canadian people without access to local public libraries...
...Insull had worked hard all his life, but he had never in his life worked so hard as he now began to work for Thomas Edison. When he landed in Manhattan, he hurried to the home of his new employer. It was five o'clock in the afternoon. "Report for duty after dinner," Mr. .Edison said. Samuel Insull worked until five next morning...
Unsocial Engineers. Not enough social insight nor responsibility, concluded the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education last week, among other charges laid to U. S. engineering students and faculties. The report followed a three-year investigation in the U. S. and Europe, at a cost of $200,000. Recommendations: 1) more study of the humanities and economics; 2) elimination, by stricter entrance examination, of misfits; 3) provision for better teachers...