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...report there are some interesting statistics about men taking second-year and final honors. The number of men who take second-year and final honors does not increase with the growth of the college. The report contains several figures of which a few may serve to show the general drift that students are taking in regard to honors. Since 1881 the yearly average of both second-year and final honors has been a trifle over 24. The number of men taking second-year honors for the last four years has been 19, 18, 27, and 19. More men, it seems...
...straightforward gentlemanly way will be backed by the approbation of the alumni. He added that Mr. Hodges had often shown his loyalty to Harvard in defeat as he now had a chance to show it in victory. Mr. Hodges then made a short address, the drift of which was that the New York graduates were not trying simply to glorify victors but to show their pleasure at the fact that what success we have had lately was success in true spot. "We always want Harvard to win," said he, "but we want you undergraduates to feel that whether...
Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. S. Berry. "History of the Discussion on the Origin of Drumlins," and Mr. E. T. Brewster, "Observations on the Glacial Drift near North Andover, Mass." Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. S. Berry, "History of the Discussion on the Origin of Drumlins;" and Mr. E. T. brewster, "Observations on the Glacial Drift near North Andover, Mass." Geological Laboratory...
...time has come for the college to bestir itself and settle this question-not in some hastily-called meeting, but with deliberation and thought. Do not let us drift into a dual league through mere inertia. It cannot but have a bad effect on the country at large. Statistics show that our prestige is waning; it is a serious moment for us, a time to throw off our indifference and meet the question squarely...