Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...themselves or this privilege should send their names to the Director of the Museum. Tickets will then be given them at the door or mailed them on receipt of a stamped and addressed envelope. For purposes of identification, students applying in person should present their own cards or a letter stamped at the college office...
Professor Perry read from a letter writen by a mother to her son in Christ's Church College, England, over 200 years ago, the key-note of which was "methodize your hours so as best to improve them." The advice was to have some system for everything in daily life and live up to it religiously...
...monopoly that New England has on the letter men in College is not due altogether to the predominant number of undergraduates from the Bay State; for, whereas, 1,432 of the 2,551 registered students come from Massachusetts, the number of athletes from there is proportionately larger. This may be seen in the fact that nearly three percent of the members of the University who are native sons of Massachusetts have won their "H". And in the remaining part of the undergraduate body who come from the 47 other states in the Union, not one percent have achieved their letter...
...offers the best illustration for these figures. Of the five men in College who have been awarded an emblem in this sport, everyone hails from Massachusetts. Track, on the other hand, is the most representative of the major sports, since two out of five, or 40 percent of its letter men, come from outside this state. In baseball, three out of nine "H" men, 33 percent, are not from Massachusetts. In football, the percentage is 30, and in hockey...
...towns in Massachusetts, Boston, of course, is first with seven letter men. Brookline follows with six, Cambridge has four, and Arlington three. It is worthy of note that there is not a man in College coming from west of Kansas City, Mo., who has won his insignia...