Word: following
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current Advocate opens with an announcement of the judges for the Advocate Prize Contest, and with editorials on collegiate English composition, and Harvard's pallid interest in such affairs as the coming Presidential campaign. There follow an essay entitled "Harvard's Duty", two whimsical stories, named respectively "The Mitigating Circumstance" and "The Copper Pot", an instalment of a continued story called "The Mirage", two bits of verse translation, and play and book-reviews...
...system of preferential voting to be used is as follow: the ballot is divided into four columns, the first column containing the list of candidates alphabetically arranged; in the second column the voter will indicate his first choice by marking a cross (X) after the name of the candidate he favors most; in the third he will indicate his second preference in a similar manner; in the fourth he will mark a cross (X) after every other candidate whom he is willing to support. Votes cast for fictitious and impossible candidates will not be counted...
...that a few men who loaf through College are able to settle down and achieve brilliant distinction in the Law School, the inference from the Herald editorial that such is the usual course of events among students coming from certain boarding schools does not appear to us necessarily to follow from the facts. It would be equally logical to deduce that since only one in thirteen of the public school men received honor grades in the Law School while one in six received them in College, therefore, public school men who had distinguished themselves in college felt above hard work...
...buildings near the Charles River on the land now owned by the University, in which all first year men, except those living at home, will be required to live. At least one of these dormitories will be built next year, and the construction of the others will follow as soon as sufficient money is provided...
...results in the seven colleges follow: At University of Chicago: Roosevelt, 203 Wilson, 134 Taft, 70 La Follette, 68 At Yale: Taft, 470 Wilson, 211 At Pennsylvania: Roosevelt: 186 Taft, 127 At University of Illinois: Roosevelt, 519 La Follette, 197 Wilson, 180 Taft, 111 At Minnesota: Roosevelt, 258 La Follette, 175 Wilson, 159 At Cornell: Roosevelt, 766 Taft, 526 Wilson, 516 La Follette, 84 At Michigan: Wilson, 449 Roosevelt, 392 Debs, 192 Taft, 140 These totals give the following totals: Roosevelt, 2324 Wilson, 1649 Taft, 1444 La Follette, 524 Debs...