Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report was recently made before the Associated Harvard Clubs by the Committee on Secondary Schools which discloses some interesting facts concerning Harvard. In making the investigation the Committee selected a group of 292 men in the classes of 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, representing the most prominent men in each class, such as class officers, athletes, editors, Phi Beta Kappa men, student councillors, etc. It was found that these class leaders came from every part of the country. While 103 of the 292 were from Massachusetts, the proportion of these 103 men to all the men from that state...
...received A in our subjects out of five and B in the other. Again, eleven students obtained an average of 70 in their entrance tests; in their college work they averaged all the way from D to A. Of the students who were in the lower half of the group in entrance work, nearly 40 per cent are found in the upper half in the last three years of college; and of the dozen students who ranked highest at entrance, some were in the lowest fifth of the class by Junior year. "There is," says Professor Thorndike, "every reason...
...poem of smooth metrical effect, and much beauty of phrase, and a narrative sketch "At the Third Table," by W. F. Merrill. This narrative has far too little action. It attracts one, however, by its quiet realism. The author has a sense of the values of character in a group of people at a common-place because he has observed them so shrewdly...
...announced before, box groups should be formed now, and a list of all occupants sent to Hollis 27. Five and six couples is the best size for a box group, although there will be a few boxes that will hold eight couples. Smaller groups can be accommodated without trouble and such groups should send in the names of themselves and gusts as soon as possible. SENIOR SUREAD COMMITTEE
Owing to the kindness of Mr. Arakelyan, and partly to the co-operation with him of the Committee, the pictures of the Senior picnic group are offered for sale at 95 cents each. These pictures are regularly $1.50 so here you are getting a reduction which makes the total expenses of the picnic as cheap as ever. A sample picture is now on exhibition at Leavitt & Peirce's and there is a book inside in which you should sign up for pictures immediately. This is the one chance to get these pictures and they will not appear in any book...