Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Papers in many places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public...
...Roosevelt Memorial Association. The details call for certain definite efforts for physical development, intellectual expression and civic or patriotic work. These details are stated in the report which the Committee has drawn up and which is now being printed in pamphlet form for general information, criticism and comment...
...lack of space, only a very limited survey of the plays was permissible in yesterday's issue. Their success and the effective and original staging are deserving of fuller comment. The College proper possesses but one serious dramatic organization; its efforts have always been commendable, frequently noteworthy. That it should have been able, in this trying period of reconstruction, to eclipse its former attainments is proof of the intrinsic vitality and resourcefulness of the club as well as of the enthusiasm of the undergraduates for its work...
Prof. Hoernle, the presiding officer, will introduce Mr. Humphries, and give a short comment on his work...
...comment on the selection of Casey the Post considers that he should be nearly unanimously chosen for a backfield position on the team. Continuing on this theme, the Post says: "Under the hottest kind of fire Casey broke through for Harvard and performed his appointed task. It was the mighty Eddie Casey who saved the Crimson from defeat. He is one man whose fame will outlast the fame of other 1919 All-American selections...