Word: founds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Contrary to current press reports the game between the University hockey team and that of McGill University will be played on February 10 as scheduled. This will be the only game the Canadian collegians will be allowed to play in the United States this winter. It has been found impossible to schedule a game with Columbia this coming Saturday, so that date still remains open, although an effort is being made to fill...
...Phillips has found out that while the percentage of Harvard graduates marrying remained nearly constant at 75, the number of children born per married graduate dropped from 3.13 for the eight classes from 1853 to 1860 to 2.06 for the ten classes from 1881 to 1890. The percent of childless marriages rose from 7.8 in the first group to 23.4 in the last. For this second group the number of children per graduate stands at 1.55, and almost exactly the same figures are true for Yale...
When Miss George was in the midst of her New York season she offered a prize of $1,000, advance royalty, and a Broadway production for a play by a college student suitable for her use. During the summer Miss George read all the manuscripts submitted personally, but unfortunately found no play suitable for her production. Accordingly no prize was awarded...
...Christmas number, I was sitting in my psychological laboratory with a group of students engaged in a complicated psychological research. We were just experimenting on some subtle functions of the human memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when the motive is no longer effective. Hence our memories with all the feelings and emotions attached...
...midnight, on that Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...