Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the mortality percentage for the General Examinations is a known quantity and we may behold our fallen comrades, it might be well to cast a glance at the examination system which determined who is to have a degree...
...well known fact that certain departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained...
There have been exceptional years in the past, the most recent being 1924, when a graduate gave a considerable number of rare works of English literature for which he is known to have paid considerably over $100,000, so that the year's total was double the normal amount...
...extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale, its closest rival among University libraries...
...wild horses which roam the western plains. Most famed Wild-Horse-Catcher is one Carl Skelton, who last week was conducting a great wild horse round-up along the Missouri River in Cascade County, Montana. Catcher Skelton is a onetime cineman who supported Cinemactor Buck Jones in pictures professionally known as "Westerns." He is also remembered by attendants at the Dempsey-Gibbons fight (TIME, July 16, 1923) in Shelby, Mont., as the man who won first prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already this season rounded up more than 350 horses, many of which will...