Word: losses
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...country can boast of. Harvard has for years been noted for the great teachers and scholars which are numbered among her professors. During the last decade many of her most renowned and valuable professors have been lost for unavoidable reasons. Harvard must fill the vacancies made by the loss of these men with the foremost teachers and professors of the literary and scientific worlds. How is this to be done? The standard of the Harvard Faculty can only be maintained by increasing the salaries of its members to a living scale and one that is proportionate to the increased earning...
...great expense of rowing is considered by many to the scarcely worth the results obtained by participation in the sport. As there is always a large deficit greatly in proportion to the receipts this loss has top be made up by loyal graduates. The advantage of an amateur coach is one in which the University is alone, for in most of the other colleges professionals take charge of their crews. In spite of this advantage, the University's rowing expenses were larger than those of Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania last year. The figures for last spring follow: Rcpts. Expenses Loss...
...enormous total of nearly $53,000 loss in the rowing expenses of but four universities is greatly increased by the addition of those all the other institutions in the country which support crews. It is possible that Columbia may give up the sport owing to the unwillingness of the graduates to stand the expense...
...slight decrease in the number of students enrolled. There is a total of 603 men in the school this year as compared with 652 last year. This makes a striking contrast with the other departments and with the University itself. They almost all seem to have grown. This loss is probably due to the increase in efficiency of so many graduate schools in the smaller universities throughout the country. One hundred and sixty-one American colleges and universities are represented this year in addition to several foreign institutions, while last year 166 universities had graduates in the school...
John Shaw Pfaffmann '17, of Quincy, has been elected captain of the University tennis team to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of G. C. Caner '17, who is going abroad to drive an ambulance. Pfaffmann was a regular on last year's team. The loss of Caner will be keenly felt, as he was the mainstay of the University team in the Intercollegiate last fall, winning the singles championship and with R. Harte '17 the doubles championship...