Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writer is "L'Europe Nouvelle" complains that a mail carrier in France is paid better than a public school teacher, and two university graduates, possessing equal qualifications, will in 30 years earn a salary of 18,000 and 9,000 francs respectively if one enters the service of the state as an engineer and the other as a college professor...
...same article remarks that the European country where professors enjoyed best treatment in the civil service--and in all Continental countries the teacher is almost invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...
Morris is, in ordinary life, a hustling and successful broker on the Boston Curb Exchange, and in addition has been a member of the State Legislature, representing old Ward 15 in 1915 and 1916, and in 1917-1918 serving in the Massachusetts Senate representing new Wards 9, 10, 11. Upon being asked by a CRIMSON reporter the origin of his scoring system and how he had become interested in the work, he replied...
...Harvard, which is in a stage in which there are many more competing colleges than in Connecticut, 64 per cent. of the squad come from Massachusetts, with but extremely few from other states. At Yale, where almost no other large colleges are in the field, the case is entirely different. Her home state, Connecticut, does not lead, but rather ties with two others for second place, while the leader is but two points ahead...
...state of next largest enrollment is New York with 576, and she in turn is followed by Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New Jersey, with 215, 161, and 146, respectively. Other states having a representation of more than 100 are Connecticut and Maine. A total of 212 students is recorded from foreign countries, of which number Canada leads with...