Word: normale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been brought up in the tradition that college men should write college stories. There are so few Flandraus! Mr. Crane chooses a graduate of "L--" College for hero, and though his plot is highly imaginative he succeeds in presenting a very much more convincing picture of the normal undergraduate state of mind. Mr. Courtney is sensational: he breaks away from his cherished George Ade tradition and gives us "A Romance of the Reel" that would need more than the usual expository interpolations in large white type and interpretative music by the talented young lady to make it intelligible even...
...fact that the normal day consists of not more than sixteen or seventeen working hours raises a number of problems calling for nice adjustment in the fixing of lecture engagements. The hour from eleven to twelve is especially popular with instructors--Professor Munro explained in the Graduates' Magazine--and is in danger of becoming over-crowded and causing bad conflicts. On the other hand, "two-thirties" are anathema to most undergraduates, especially in the spring and fall when athletics are in fullest swing. It has been suggested that they be moved to 7.45 in the morning; and it is likely...
These changes are shown by a pamphlet containing a list of the secondary schools, universities, colleges, technical schools, and normal schools from which students have entered the College during the last ten years. During the period from 1906 to 1915 the following secondary schools sent one hundred or more boys: Boston Latin School, 381 Phillips Exeter Academy, 302 Cambridge High and Latin School, 254 Noble and Greenough, 232 Milton Academy, 179 Phillips Academy, Andover, 168 Middlesex School, Concord, 146 St. Mark's School, Southboro, 141 Groton School, 139 Volkmann School, 133 St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 131 English...
...English universities is strikingly illustrated by a set of figures given in the Cambridge Review, relating to Cambridge University. This article states that only 665 students are at present enrolled in the university, as compared with 1,227 at this time last year, and a normal enrollment of about 3,000. The article states further that 1,723 Cambridge men had been put out of action up to January 18. Of these 697 had been killed, 892 wounded, and 134 missing. Among these were many of the most famous of the Cambridge athletes. The total number of Cambridge...
...Since Syria has been isolated by the war the activity of the college has been greatly interfered with, but in spite of unfavorable conditions the enrolment this fall was over 250, and work will undoubtedly be continued, in some degree at least, till normal times return...