1921 | Education
Education
The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce speaks out January 16 about the poor state of education, which he says has fallen below the standards of every other civilized country: of the 600,000 teachers in America, he tells the National Education Association, one-sixth are under 21; 30,000 have no education themselves beyond eighth grade; 150,000 have not gone beyond the third year in high school; and 450,000 U.S. children either have no classrooms or must learn in overcrowded classes.
Chicago's 28-year-old Field Museum of Natural History opens in a new building overlooking Grant Park.
Girton College, Cambridge, founder Emily Davies dies at Hampstead, London, July 17 at age 91.
Britain's University of Leicester opens with nine students in an 84-year-old building donated by textile manufacturer Thomas Fielding Johnson for use as a living memorial to those who died in the Great War. The University will receive a royal charter in 1957, gain full degree-granting powers, and grow to have about 10,000 full-time students.