Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Group B--California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi...
...spring of 1911, Harvard University entered into an agreement with four colleges in the Middle West where-by what is now commonly known as the Western Exchange was established. The institutions concerned were Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois, Beloit College at Beloit, Wisconsin, Grinnell College, at Grinnell, Iowa, and Colorado College at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, which shared in the arrangement informally from the first, has now been admitted on equal footing with the original four. According to the agreement the University sends to these colleges annually for half a year a professor who divides...
...University of Wisconsin regatta yesterday adopted without change the recommendation of the faculty that intercollegiate rowing contests be temporarily discontinued pending further development of intra-university athletic sports. This means that Wisconsin will not be represented by crews in the Poughkeepsie regatta next year...
...cases the registration figures seem unusually large because they include the summer school enrollment. The figures follow: College Total Varsity Fr'men Columbia, 5,992 3,075 442 Michigan, 5,036 3,462 1,731 Cornell, 4,803 3,500 1,000 Harvard, 4,279 1,593 590 Wisconsin, 4,237 1,841 889 Pennsylvania, 3,900 2,400 1,300 Yale, 3,300 1,600 900 Minnesota, 3,141 1,638 Chicago, 2,901 500 Illinois, 2,750 1,800 600 Princeton, 1,725 925 400 Dartmouth...
...growing conception of the times that a university should serve the community not alone as an educational institution but by direct co-operation with the State. The importance of this newer conception of the university's position is most strikingly seen in those Western states where the so-called "Wisconsin idea" has been definitely applied. With the constant trend towards "state socialism," the necessity for such expert advice as a university alone can adequately supply grows ever greater. Concrete expression of this sentiment was given in the submission of a bill to Congress during the past winter for the establishment...