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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Appointment Office of the University is now sending out the registration blanks to all men who have signified their desire to enter the teaching profession or to engage in any other branch of educational work. Every year the Appointment Office receives calls for over one thousand men from educational institutions all over the world, and each year the office is able to secure men enough to fill only about two hundred and fifty of these positions. Besides handling these calls, the office tries to find a place for men who apply for positions for which calls have not been received...
With the addition of several thousand dollars from the local district, the grand total is now well over...
...interest your class to know that the quality of the plays submitted far exceeded even my sanguine hopes. The value of the plays in this contest may best be tested by the fact that as a rule. I produce one play-in each thousand submitted for my consideration. That I shall in all probability produce at least four of the forty-two submitted is a criterion at least, of my own opinion of the plays...
...large increase in the subscriptions received from the western part of the country is expected after the football trip to Pasadena. Up to recently less than 9 per cent, of the 1500 graduates living on the Pacific Coast had subscribed to the Fund. It is hoped that several hundred thousand dollars will be subscribed, due to the presence of the football team in California...
...does not contend--nor does anyone else--that it is typical of college men in general. The "superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred...