1910's Education | Important Events in Education, 1910–1919

1910

• Thirty-nine percent of undergraduates in U.S. colleges and universities are women.
• Embryologist Thomas Hunt Morgan begins to attract graduate students to Columbia University not for the curriculum but for opportunities in research.
• Admissions directors at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Amherst begin discussions about the increasing number of Jewish male applicants.
• Only eight states have school attendance of 90 percent or higher of children ages six to fourteen. Four are in New England, and the remainder are in Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan, and New York.
• Examinations by local officials for teaching certificates are replaced in all states by examinations conducted by state boards or state departments of education.
• The U.S. Census reports that 550,000 children ages ten to fifteen are at work in factories, shops, and in other nonagricultural positions rather than...