Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appropriation of the Board is a beginning in an enterprise the University has long had in view. The training of teachers and school officers began at Harvard in 1891, when Professor Paul H. Hanus was called to the University to take charge of "Courses for the Instruction of Teachers." These courses were given at first in the Department of Philosophy and were not counted toward a degree. Academic recognition followed, however, within a year, and through the efforts of Professor Hanus the instructors in Education were established in 1906 as a Division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Cambridge to see its youngest periodical attempt to attract attention to itself by sticking out its small tongue at the CRIMSON; and we can hardly believe that the average undergraduate will sympathize with its attempts to establish a cheap and noisy paper which finds it all too easy to take an instantaneous and extreme attitude toward any new question...
...Friday afternoon, the trials in the dashes, hurdles, 440-yards run, 880-yards run, shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-vault, running high and running broad jump will be held. The semi-finals in the sprints and hurdles as well as the finals in the 13 events will take place Saturday afternoon...
Tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, the 18th annual joint concert of the University and Yale Musical Clubs will take place at Jordan Hall. This performance will mark the resumption of the annual affair, which has been postponed for the last two years on account...
...practical fact. This advantage would be Federal supervision of education, with a view to its general improvement. We are far from advocating state subsidies or aids to institutions of learning, or paternalism or active central control or domination of educational development in any form. We are not hankering to take orders from any federal "School-master-General," But at the same time it is a significant fact that certain Republican Senators are already advocating the formation of a new national department, under a Secretary of Education, with a seat in the cabinet. If the affairs of private schools...