Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowes Ph.D. '05 professor of English at Harvard will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford, it was announced here today by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Professor Lowes will lecture at Oxford during the academic year 1930-31. His appointment was officially announced in the Oxford Gazette today...
...George Eastman Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford was established last year by Mr. George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, by a gift of $200,000, to the American Trust Fund for Oxford University maintained by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The regulations of the professorship provide that the holder shall be an American eminent in any branch of research or university study. Elections to the professorship are made by a Board of representatives of the University of Oxford and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. The term of appointment may be from one to five years, with...
...assistant director, have been engaged in making, contacts with certain companies in Boston, finding out about possible jobs, what provision is made to take care of college graduates, and the attitude of employers in general to new men. The director is planning to make a trip later in the year through the Middle Atlantic States and the Middle West to do the same type of work. Here he will cooperate with the committees which have already been established in many of the local Harvard Clubs, and expects to establish similar connections...
...that the reading period is going into its third year, many of the old abuses are fortunately being slowly obliterated. The fact that it has been made shorter this year than previously should permit the instructors in charge of courses to cover their required field without having to require the routine work in the time theoretically to be devoted to personal research. Another interesting change has been effected in English...
With these innovations in one of the larger English courses, it becomes more apparent that it is merely a matter of time until the ideal of a constructive reading period will be attained. The present imperfections are still rather glaring, but the new improvements that are offered every year point to it short duration of the present unfortunate experimental period...