Word: towards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...General Education Board has announced an appropriation of $500,000 toward a fund of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. President Lowell received official notice of the gift yesterday morning...
...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. The proposal to establish a Graduate School of Education was approved by the Corporation...
Hawker has contributed much toward world-progress in aviation; in his next attempt he will probably contribute more. But perhaps his greatest service has been purely unintentional. He has made two great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...
...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...
...announced in American college and university newspapers at that time. During the war, it was active in the work of organizing the different national groups, and in publishing magazines and bulletins of information. The end of the war has made possible a more active and intensive improvement toward establishing closer relations between the student bodies of the different nations...