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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unofficial reports, at noon. When the figure of $1,539,785 was made out, 41 cities and towns of the district remained still to be heard from, although many of the local committees in the district had sent in approximately accurate reports by telephone. The largest collection reported by any committee outside of Boston was $89,331, from Brookline...
...text-books taken up will be placed in the Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House for the use of students who are working their way through College. This library now numbers about 4,000 books, of which the largest number are text-books in the language courses or large elementary courses in which many or expensive books are required...
With 1800 sailors "on board" the Radio School is now the largest establishment of its kind in the entire country, and probably in the world. So successful has been the work of the school and such complete facilities for proper training are there provided, that all radio schools in the country are being closed as quickly as is possible, with the exception of those small stations preparing men for entrance to this Cambridge post...
...Freshmen entering College this year. The class of 1921 is smaller than last year's Freshman class by 145. With such men as President Wilson and Major-General Wood urging young men to return to their studies we had hoped that the class of 1921 would be the largest ever. We did not hope this so that the University merely might have greater numbers but rather that the University might have a greater number to instruct in serving the nation well...
...sophomores in June and the senior class now calls together 325 out of 484 juniors before the vacation. These upper classes, instead of being "shot to pieces," come together with 75 and 80 per cent. respectively of their former numbers. It is in the post-graduate work that the largest percentage of loss comes. These men are of the age and attainments to be instantly of service to their country, so that here the number has fallen from 65 last year to 39 at the moment. This number usually rises because such students do not always report at the beginning...