Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has been remarkably free from typhoid fever and has been spared the unfortunate experiences of certain other colleges with this disease. At the present time with the system of frequent routine examinations of the water, milk and food supplies of our dining halls any epidemic is practically out of the question, yet sporadic cases acquired from outside creep in. Students almost without exception, take some food and water from other places than their regular eating place. Furthermore, in the summer, which is the typhoid season, the student population scatters and with the characteristic activity of young men their excursions...
...additions to the library this year are distinctly below the average; this is due to the fact that this year's committee was handicapped by a debt of some $200 left to it by the 1918-1914 committee. This deficiency was due to the fact that certain annual donations were withdrawn two years ago. In order to pay this sum the committee restricted its activities, and endeavored to limit their choice of books to those strictly necessary, and whose subjects were best fitted to supply those needs the Union library aims to supply: namely, volumes of general and universal interest...
...salaries received in business positions by former students of the Graduate School of Business Administration have recently been given out and are shown below. Taken in connection with the rapid growth of the School--an increase of forty per cent in enrollment this year over last year -- and with certain other facts as to the ready placing of all graduates in business positions, these figures are significant of the increasing success of the Harvard methods and of the growing importance of business schools all over the country...
Apropos of the subject of study, certain statistics in regard to Freshman probation this year are especially interesting. Out of the forty-four probationers which represent the Freshman crop for the first half-year, it was found that twenty-five had taken less than three cuts, and that eight had taken less than three cuts, and that eight had taken no cuts at all. Evidently, as Dean Yeomans expressed it, they had shown interest in their work at least to the extent of taking their bodies to the class-room...
...quote from a recent number of the Alumni Bulletin: "Certain it is that there is no greater need in all the long category of possible improvements in our system of education than the need of some more effective machinery for teaching the fundamental point of all instruction--the power to learn...