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...statistics on rank, published in yesterday's CRIMSON, may be taken as a criterion of the seriousness of a student's work during the four years of his college life. The varying percentages of marks in the five grades show a striking and gratifying tendency toward more earnest work in each succeeding year. In the Freshman year less than 16 per cent, of the marks assigned to '89 reached A, while almost 3 per cent. fell into grade E. A steady increase in the A's brings the per cent. to more than 22 in the Senior year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1890 | See Source »

...shall win. The freshman football teams of the past three years have established a precedent which must not be broken. At the same time our team must work if they would succeed. The fact that very little has been heard of Yale's freshman team this year is no criterion of their strength. We may be sure that they will work to win, and that is more than half the game. The presence-of 'varsity men too, must not inspire undue confidence in our eleven. There is no reason why the team if rightly used should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/27/1889 | See Source »

...seen by the list of freshmen published today, the incoming class of Ninety-three is considerably larger than any previous freshman class. This fact certainly, taken by itself, is a gratifying sign of Harvard's growing prosperity. Unfortunately for all concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/28/1889 | See Source »

...make an effort to go to the theatricals, which, if those of last year be any criterion, should be good, and by their presence insure not only the prosperity of the Conference Francaise, but also the success of its efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1889 | See Source »

...number of volumes in a library is not always a criterion of its value to the student, but it is interesting to know the extent to which the colleges of the United States have accumulated libraries and their comparative sizes. We append a list showing the number of bound volumes in the libraries of the principal colleges of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Libraries. | 1/10/1889 | See Source »

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