Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...books, but there remain the detached collections of various departments, and conditions in respect of these are not satisfactory. Again the maintenance of a library's new purchases of books, within the standards applicable to one of the greatest libraries in the world, must increase in difficulty and in special demands out of all proportion to the needs which the average city library is required to meet. If Harvard's library can get additional endowment, doubtless it will be well applied. Boston Transcript...
...will be cancelled and formal athletics will be discontinued upon the advent of war. This action enables all University athletes to make definite arrangements for joining military units at a later date. Already the Faculty has passed rules governing undergraduates leaving College to join state or national organizations. Already special plans have been arranged to facilitate the members of the R. O. T. C. continuing their course, provided increased hours of instruction are added. All these preparations have been wisely made in advance. However, war has not yet been declared, and although we may expect it, such a declaration...
...That, if arrangements shall be made by which students may devote their full time to the work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, special final examinations be provided for such students in advance of the regular final examination period...
This means, it was officially stated, that men called off for service shall be entitled to take at once--without waiting until the close of the year--a special examination, or such other test, formal or informal, as may be satisfactory to the instructor, and that the mark then reported by the instructor shall confer the same credit as if the course had been completed in June. All students expecting to leave College shortly for any such purpose are advised to notify the Recorder immediately...
...Harvard Endowment Fund Committee points out that among the chief reasons that the University, with capital and invested funds of over $30,000,000, cannot increase the salaries of its teachers and professors, is that the money was originally given for special purposes and therefore cannot be used for salaries. Of the annual income from the $30,000,000 capital, only $425,000 is available to meet the College salary and expense item of $1,020,000. Of course the discrepancy is made up from tuition fees and other income, but this goes to show that the University...