Word: losses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...growth in numbers in all the graduate and professional schools is satisfactory evidence of the efficiency with which the work of these departments is now carried on. In the undergraduate departments a contrasting condition is apparent, for the loss in the Lawrence Scientific School comes within one of offsetting completely the gain in the College. For practical purposes the College is standing still, as far as its condition is reflected in its enrollment...
...yesterday's discussion of this subject we purposely left out of consideration what is perhaps the more important of the two major points at issue. That our athletic teams suffer by the loss of many men who go through College in less than four years, there are many instances to prove. But that many men who might finish in three years by a proper arrangement of their courses prefer instead to take four years, and that the chance of taking part in athletics for an extra year is the principal inducement to such men, is not so easy of proof...
...generally understood. Figures in recent president's reports indicate that nearly one fourth of the men in each class are now leaving College or entering a graduate school at the end of Junior year or in the middle of Senior year. It is easy to see how the loss of such a part of each Senior class may interfere very seriously with athletics. One can readily call to mind several recent cases in which Harvard teams have been deprived of good athletes, who were ineligible during what would naturally have been their Senior year in College...