1920 | Education
Education
Britain's Imperial War Museum opens at London with exhibits relating to the Great War. It will move in 1936 to Lambeth Road in the borough of Southwark, where it will occupy a late Georgian-style building that formerly housed the Bethlehem Royal Hospital for the mentally ill (Bedlam) and will later broaden its focus.
A training manual issued by Massachusetts Supervisor of Americanization John J. Mahoney advises teachers on how to instruct immigrant children in American ways.
Women account for 47 percent of all U.S. college undergraduates, up from less than 40 percent in 1910, and for the first time have as much access to a college education as men.
Oxford moves May 18 to give women professors equal status with their male colleagues and on October 7 admits the university's first 100 women to study for full degrees (see Holloway College, 1889).