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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to its plans announced yesterday morning, the Glee Club has arranged for a comprehensive program to be carried out this winter. The organization now aims to set a standard of music which will not only attract audiences but will also be a pleasure and a benefit to the members of the club. The criticism which has often been made that the club has sung the same music too many years has been recognized by Dr. Davison, and plans have been made to alter this situation. Concerts are to be given this winter in Sanders Theatre, alternating with those...
...statement given out yesterday by Eliot Wadsworth '98, executive chairman of the University Endowment Fund, the specific needs of the various departments in regard to increased salaries and other expenses are described. The reasons for the raising of the goal from $10,000,000 to $15,250,000 are set forth in Mr. Wadsworth's announcement. Not only a 50 per cent. increase of salary of the reglar teaching staff will be necessary, but funds for physical education, the dental school, chemical development and other numerous purposes...
...original mark which we set," said Mr. Wadsworth, "was $10,000,000; this amount was the estimate of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee which was appointed in 1916. This seemed large at the time and was based upon the needs of the institution at the time for increased equipment and higher remuneration for the teaching staff. America entered the war, however, within a short time and the plans were dropped until last spring. When the Committee began work again, the first step was a full study of the University. This investigation was made by members of the Committee and graduates...
...impossible to set any certain date for the mustering out of the limited foreign service men, it is doubtful whether college students will be able to get back to their respective school before the opening of the next academic year...
...most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with the bachelor of arts degree and found the experiment so helpful that the plan is now being greatly extended...