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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greatest relative gain is the 22 per cent. increase in the Wharton Scientific School. The registration total includes 2960 in the graduate summer school, as well as the Wharton evening and extension courses...
...slight increase in the strictness of the examiners. In any case, no great importance can be attached to the loss. We can, however, relate the percentages of men admitted and refused to corresponding percentages in past years, and here we find that, whereas in 1906 only 12 per cent. of those who applied for admission were turned down, in 1913 this percentage had risen to 26. That the increase in percentage of those refused admission had a great deal to do with the falling off in the Class of 1917 is proved by the fact that, had it remained...
...University Register submits the following list of trade advertisements which are to be disposed of at from 10 to 15 per cent. discount. Students wishing to avail themselves of these may obtain credit-slips from either D. P. Whitney '15 or C. C. Loomis '15, at 22 Plympton street. Last year, the Register went deeply into debt, and if students who trade with the merchants enumerated below will make use of the advertisements, it will do much to lighten the Register's financial obligations. Henry J. Bean, tailor, on suit or overcoat, $25.00 Byrd Studio, Photographs, 14.50 A. A. Carter...
...muck-rakes, the magazine has usually disregarded literary fads and enjoyed a conservative reputation. The Monthly is still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like...
Everyone should appreciate that the transportation rates are by the plan reduced 45 per cent. Every man should also remember that unless 300 men sign up at once the whole plan fails...