* 1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.

In an article in the Columbia Law Review in 1908, Roscoe Pound of the University of Chicago mounted a vigorous attack on " mechanical jurisprudence ," the judicial practice of " rigorous logical deduction from predetermined conceptions in disregard of ... the actual facts.

In 1908 Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester ( now the University of Manchester ), developed an experimental technique for detecting alpha particles that would later be used in the Geiger-muller tube.

* 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Founded in 1908 as a women's college, James Madison University was established by the Virginia General Assembly.

By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.

In 1908 Bloomfield moved to the University of Chicago where he took courses in German and Indo-European philology with Frances A.

The joint venture saw a chance of promotion, and the club applied for admission to the more prestigious VFL in 1908, but Richmond and University were admitted instead.

* James Joseph Walsh, The Popes and Science ; the History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time, Fordam University Press, 1908, reprinted 2003, Kessinger Publishing.

William Chandler Bagley taught in elementary schools before becoming a professor of education at the University of Illinois, where he served as the Director of the School of Education from 1908 until 1917.

* 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.

The opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the College to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria.

University of British Columbia was created in 1908.

In 1908 Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, wrote to his counterpart at Bristol, welcoming a new university worthy of:

In 1907 he became associate professor and in 1908 full professor of mathematics at the University of Chernivtsi ( Russian Черновцы ), Ukraine.

In 1908 he joined the OUOTC ( Oxford University Officer Training Corps ), undergoing a two-year training course.

In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration ( GSBA ) at Harvard University was established ; it offered the world's first MBA program, with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students.

With his career prospects in Britain in serious difficulty, Jones sought refuge in Canada in 1908, taking up teaching duties in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto ( from 1911, as Associate Professor of Psychiatry ).

Starting in 1908, while a professor at the University of Chicago, Millikan worked on an oil-drop experiment in which he measured the charge on a single electron.

Umami was not properly identified until 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda, a professor of the Tokyo Imperial University.

Her mother received a doctorate in ophthalmology at the University of Berlin in 1908 and became the first female physician in Lithuania, while her father had received his medical degree from the University of Tartu in 1910.

1908 Dozent at Bonn

* Saint Quentin ’ s Catholic Parish Church ( Pfarrkirche St. Quintin ), Dorfstraße 3 – Late Romanesque tower, two-level Gothic Revival pseudobasilica, 1908, architects Adam Rüppel, Bonn, and Josef Moritz, Müden

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.

The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.

He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and became active in London local politics.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

The Detroit River became the busiest commercial river in the world and was dubbed " the Greatest Commercial Artery on Earth " by The Detroit News in 1908.

Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.

He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor on 1908, and full professor in 1911.

In 1908 Hoover became an independent mining consultant, traveling worldwide until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

* John Brown ( baseball ) ( 1876 – 1908 ), player for 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, which later became Los Angeles Dodgers

Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.

In 1912, the old fortress was dismantled, and in 1908, the municipality Rothensee became part of Magdeburg,

In Japan the first successful planting of olive trees happened in 1908 on Shodo Island which became the cradle of olive cultivation.

) With the sale of so many records, sheet music, and piano rolls, the song became one of the most popular hits of 1908.

In 1908, when the second-hand business was merged into the regular sales offices, Watson became assistant sales manager ; moving up to become sales manager in 1910 with a further role — working along with NCR's engineers — in new product development.

In 1908 Bang and Ellerman showed that a filterable virus could transmit chicken leukemia, data largely ignored till the 1930s when leukemia became regarded as cancerous.

In 1908, Jung became an editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research.

London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice ; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924.

Usable gyrocompass was invented in 1906 in Germany by Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, and after successful tests in 1908 became widely used in German Imperial Navy.

In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture ( L ' assasinat du duc de Guise ), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s.

In June 1908, Edward became the first reigning British monarch to visit the Russian Empire, despite refusing to visit in 1906, when Anglo-Russian relations were strained in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Tsar's dissolution of the Duma.