Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...surprising trend away from the professions and toward industrial and commercial pursuits is shown in the new Yale directory of living graduates. The recent compilation shows a gain of 99 per cent, in the number of graduates engaged in industrial and commercial pursuits in the 12 years ending with 1915; while the gain in the number of Yale alumni in the professions for the same period was only 24 per cent...
...number of graduates in the principal divisions in 1904 and in 1915 and the gain in 12 years is shown below: Professional. Gain 1904 1915 Pot. Law, 3,156 4,013 27 Education, 1,489 1,919 29 Medicine, 1,151 1,387 20 Ministry, 1,141 1,255 10 -- -- -- Total, 6,937 8,574 24 Industrial. Manufact. 1,171 2,175 86 Finance, 1,138 2,087 83 Mercant. Busin., 937 1,688 80 Engineering, 849 2,218 160 Total...
...this team's member gain anything for his college or eleven by deliberately breaking a fundamental rule and thus losing a well-earned victory that could have been secured? Do the coaches and team members ever intelligently take into consideration what it costs to lose a championship game by trying unfair methods...
...completed the work required for graduation, though 16 have not actually received their diplomas. Last year the registration showed that 145 colleges were represented, while only two of the students enrolled were not college graduates. The total enrolment of the school this year is 856 which shown a considerable gain over the enrolments of 789 and 730 for last year and 1914 respectively, land which exceeds the previous record of 808 made in 1911-12. The registration is divided among the classes as follows: first year, 334; second year 234; third year, 212; unclassified, 64 resident graduate students...
Casey earns his position because of his ability at dodging tacklers coupled with his sensational 70-yard run in the Yale game. He is praised as the only Crimson back who could gain against the Yale line, and although he has no punting ability and is not as fast as some other backs, his way of shaking off tacklers is unequalled by any other Eastern back...