Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Papers in many places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public...
Plans for the Harvard Squash Club are maturing rapidly toward concrete results in teams and schedules. It is planned to have the headquarters of the club in the room in Randolph Gymnasium formerly used as an office by Dr. Sargent, where fittings to make it more like a club-room will be arranged...
...provide schedules for these two branches of the club two different plans are being followed. In squash racquets the possibilities of league matches are good. The Massachusetts Squash Racquets Club is engaged in forming a league of which the Harvard Club of Boston, the B. A. A., Newton Center Squash Racquets Club, Union Boat Club, Tennis and Racquet Club, and the Harvard Squash Club would be members. A regular schedule with interclub matches for the league championship will probably be drawn up later in the season...
Progress in the development of a schedule for the squash team is not so definite as no league is in view. Already, however, invitations from the Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Clubs of New York City have been received asking for matches...
...oculist. In 1914 we found that 41 per cent of the Freshmen wore glasses, either constantly, for distance, or for near work. This fall we found that 37.2 per cent of the Freshmen wore glasses. In other words, the enlightened part of the public who send their boys to Harvard College may be considered as appreciating fully the dangers of ocular defects and this appreciation has extended at least as far back as 1914. In 1914, 43.5 per cent of the Freshmen had had some operation upon their nose or throat. In 1919, 43.6 per cent of the Freshmen...