Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important changes are shown in the survey of Freshman physical examination statistics inst completed by Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, Henry K. Oliyer Professor of Hygiene. Over last year's Fresh-man class there is an increase of tonper cent in the number of those who smoko, two per cent more wear glasses, and the samo increase is shown in the number of these who have had their appendices removed before entering college...
...common with other departments we have been arranging a systematic program of reading for all courses which will observe the Reading Period. In general the reading assigned will represent an increase of about 50 per-cent over the normal assignments...
...Graduate Faculties of Columbia. In his opinion this proportion is not peculiar to Columbia, but is typical of the graduate school situation throughout the United States. His statements are based not on conjecture, but on the figures supplied by the registrar of the university. Only 35 per cent of those who matriculate into the graduate schools of Columbia ever gain their degrees, and only 25 per cent, according to Dean Woodbridge, may be said to have justified the expense of their tuition. In such a situation it is clear that the problems of elimination of the applicants for the graduate...
...have been without foundation. And there is at least one paradox in the spectacle of the wealthiest nation in the world pausing long over a half billion dollar loan to her own merchant marine, while Germany needs a foreign check-rein to keep her from staking her last cent on German enterprise...
...necessary to limit Senior candidates for distinction to those men who had attained a Group Four or better standing by the end of their Junior year the percentage had risen to nearly one half of the College. Last year it dropped to a little over twenty-eight per cent. This year it has jumped to nearly thirty two per cent. It is possible to draw two conclusions, neither of which is exclusive. First, that more men are electing to go out for honors and distinction. Second, that more Seniors have attained the group standing necessary for candidacy. It is possible...