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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preparatory schools, both boarding and country day institutions. The requirements are almost uniformly athletics, music, and dramatics. Mathematics and science are the subjects most frequently called for, but there is also a great demand for men with historical and economic training sufficient to lead classes in citizenship. Inexperienced men without preparation for teaching are less and less in demand. Opportunities are offered for teaching in the following states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island...
...Fair contains an article by John Jay Chapman entitled "Harvard's Plight," a renewed complaint against the composition of the Corporation. Although we were surprised to find such a weighty subject discussed in a publication which seldom enters upon academic questions, the matter is too important to be dismissed without thought or comment. Mr. Chapman declares that Harvard is run by State Street bankers and that they have caused a spirit of "commercialism" to pervade its former intellectual atmosphere...
...regard to the changes in the curriculum at Yale, the influence of Prussianism is very evident. It has been said before in these columns but will bear repeating, that while Yale does not consider that a Freshman is sufficiently mature to select his courses without interference, it nevertheless obliges him to decide what his life work is going to be and to map out his career in college accordingly. Naturally it was not the intention of those who planned this "reformation" to establish such a contradiction but the result as the system now stands can hardly be otherwise. A young...
...positions that a man may hold, we are not raising the standard to the highest possible level in such a way that the largest number may derive the most benefit. We are lowering the standard to a level that will enable men of mediocre ability to attain these positions without undue effort on their part and we are removing to a very large extent the stimulus of intense competition upon which all achievement must in the last analysis, be based. Once remove the idea of competition from your undergraduate activities and the sooner you remove the activities themselves the better...
...under the heading of a "Request of the Dutch League of Nations Committee to the Rulers of States, Members of governments and of Parliaments, and Delegates to the Peace Conference" asking them "to forget and forgive" matters connected with the war. The University names were attached to this document without authorization, and President Lowell and the others entered a protest of "while fervently desiring a lasting peace," they were not in accord with the sentiments it expressed...