Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...standards of the upper classes. That the problem lies with the Freshman class is shown by an examination of figures showing the percentages in the various classes of men winning academic distinction. Only ten per cent, of last year's Freshman class won positions in the first or second group. Of the Sophomores, eleven per cent, were honor men, and of the Juniors sixteen per cent. These figures not only reveal a progressive interest in and attention to scholarship, but they offer the suggestion than the place for reform is the Freshman class. Here conditions are worst and here changes...
...young oaks are hardy and will spread more than their predecessors. They average now about 20 feet in height and 3 inches in diameter. This group of trees should afford considerable shade within five years, but the nurserymen have calculated that a generation will pass before the new trees attain the size of the elms...
...Fitch himself speaks of his own reversal of opinion upon first attending a Northfield Conference: "I then discovered that my impressions of the Conference had little foundation in fact. I found a joyous, delightfully vigorous and magnetic atmosphere. The men from the various colleges and schools were a selected group, frankly and earnestly religious, but normally and intelligently so. There was plenty of sport and recreation mingled with the meetings...
...group of portraits of "leaders in political service who have recently spoken at Harvard" reveals not only the extent of the opportunity enjoyed by Harvard men to see and hear the leading speakers of the land, but also the catholicity of taste which brings together on the same page the familiar features of the "silver-tongued orator of the West," the "kid's judge," and the genial author of the "Gentle Reader" and other essays...
...published last fall, it was noted that public school men were much more successful in attaining high academic standing than students from private preparatory schools. The list showed that about one man of every five from public schools obtained a position either in the First or Second Group of Scholars, whereas only one man of every twenty-seven from preparatory schools succeeded in winning honors in his studies...