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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same period the gain per cent. in the number of students entering the College from the New England States has been as follows: Per cent. Maine, 120 New Hampshire, 34 Vermont, -- Massachusetts, 11 Rhode Island, 30 Connecticut...
Another matter of interest is the growing national character of the school, as shown in figures given in another column. This year sixty-two per cent, of the enrolment is from outside New England; and seventy-two colleges are represented. Thus the University has added another national graduate school to those it already possessed; and a new profession has been opened to the college graduate...
Arrangements for taxicab service should be made with the agent of the Franklin Motor Cabs, Inc., at the Hotel Somerset, Back Bay 946. A twenty per cent. discount will be obtainable, each man settling with his driver...
...during the years 1900 to 1915. The results were substantially the same. The men who received distinction ranked in the Law School almost in the identical order in which they were ranked at Yale. The "Philosophical Orations" men--the highest ranking at Yale--made an average of 74.8 per cent.; the "High Orations" men 72.4, and so forth, through "Orations," "Dissertations," First and Second "Disputes" and "First Colloquies." The "No Appointments" men, however, surpassed the "Second Colloquies" men who ranked ahead of them in college; thus affording the only break in the sequence. These results are sufficient to prove that...
...current issue of "The Independent" publishes some interesting figures in regard to the colleges from which have come the present United States Congressmen. Though 28 per cent of the members of the Senate and House are not graduates of any college, nearly 200 institutions are represented by the remaining 380. The University of Michigan, with 27 alumni in Congress, holds the lead, which it has maintained for several years. Virginia is second with 20, and Harvard a close third with 19. The other eight institutions which have more than five representatives are: Yale 13, Wisconsin 10, Alabama 7, Mississippi...