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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alumni Bulletin last year, statistics were printed which show that between one-third and one-half of Harvard's undergraduates were earning money either in term time, in the summer, or during the entire year. That such a large proportion of students is able to obtain work is due mainly to the assistance of the Employment Bureau. According to the report of the secretary for last year the number of positions provided was almost 2,000 and the total amount earned by the students during the whole year was over $100,000. The struggles and achievements of other men sink...
Professor Perry is best known perhaps as former editor of the Atlantic Monthly in which position he served for a term of ten years from 1899 to 1909. From 1886 to 1893 he was Professor in English at Williams College from which he took the degree of A.B. in 1881 and the degree of A.M. in 1883. He was Professor in English at Princeton from 1893 to 1900 and in 1907 was made Professor in English Literature at Harvard. He was exchange professor at the University of Paris for the year...
...close on August 12. Summer instruction has been offered at Harvard for more than forty years, a longer period than at any other university in this country. The summer courses were primarily established in order to provide university instruction for teachers, and were planned in the belief that short-term study can be made most effective by concentration on a single subject. Thus a student is expected to enroll regularly in only one course, and to give that for six weeks his whole time and effort...
Since the work is more rapid than in term-time, it is possible to make the courses full equivalents of the University "half-course" of the academic year, to which they strictly correspond in standard. Nearly all the courses may be counted for the degree of A.B. or S.B., provided, however, that the student obtains a grade of C, or higher...
...governing board at Yale has decided to institute a two-year course in preparation for the diplomatic and consular service, open to men who have studied at least two years at some accredited college. The course will consist of sixteen hours of lectures a week throughout the two-year term. The course of instruction will be in modern languages, government, business methods, and political economy, with especial reference to the natural, industrial, and commercial resources of the United States...