Word: dean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...president's report for last year appears the following paragraph "There is a common impression among ill informed people that Harvard college, though hard to get into, is easy to stay in. How erroneous the impression is may be seen every year in the figures published in the Dean's annual report concerning the changes in the personnel of the successive college classes. Thus in October, 1888, it appears from the Dean's statistics for the year 1888-89, that the freshman, sophomore and junior classes numbered together 825 persons, and that of this number 87 left college...
Apropos of this last statement the statistics of the Dean in regard to the number of men dropped from the different classes since 1882, are interesting and instructive. In 1882, 14 men were dropped; in 1887, 61, in 1888, 46; in 1889, 47. Although an unusual number were dropped in 1887 (more than in the two following years) it appears that on the whole the number of dropped men has increased quite regularly during the last eight years. At present an average of one man in every eleven is dropped from the freshman class. Eight years ago there was only...
Another table given by the Dean is interesting. It shows the changes in losses and gains that take place in the various classes. The table is the following...
...report of the Dean of Harvard college embodied in the President's Report, is very full and covers thoroughly all subjects connected with the college. The first subject treated is the attendance at the beginning of the last year especially as compared to the attendance at the beginning of this year. The following is a summary of the figures...
...Dean, '88, has left the Law school...