Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Statistics of the University office show that the class of 1918, the first Freshman class to occupy the new dormitories, attained a higher standard of grades than the class of 1917. The present Junior class was the last Freshman class separated among the different dormitories and rooming houses of Cambridge. From the statistics of the scholastic standing of the Sophomore class it seems that the new dormitories not only brought the members of the class into closer relationship with each other in social affairs, athletics, and class into closer relationship with each other in social affairs, athletics, and class activities...
...change of the pole-vault record causes the most surprise. The present record was made by J. Barr '10 in 1908, when he cleared the bar at the height of 12 feet 4 7-8 inches. This is five feet and four inches higher than the record of 7 feet 1 inch, made by N. H. Fowler...
...number of men using the tank daily is never under 300 and the average is considerably higher. Its use is compulsory only for freshmen taking gymnasium work. The charges are 15 cents a swim or $5 a season. This means that, were a pool installed in the Union and all students forced to join at the reduced figure of $6, the tank privileges alone would be worth practically the entire charge...
...Graduate students who are candidates for the higher degrees. 2. Students who have spent two years in Columbia College, or Barnard College, or in some other college of equivalent rank, and are candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science. 3. Graduates of high schools who have completed in the Department of Extension Teaching work equivalent to that offered by Columbia College or Barnard College in the first two years. 4. Students over twenty-one years of age, actively in business, and qualified to undertake certain courses, who may be admitted as special students but not as candidates...
...University nine has the edge on its opponents in games won, having carried off all its contests except one defeat and one tie, both setbacks occurring during the Southern trip. In team-work the opposing nines are practically even, Princeton having a fielding average of .935 against the slightly higher .956 of the University, while the batting averages give Princeton a shade the advantage with .243 against...