Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made 12 hits, most of them coming when they meant most after Crimson errors had set up perfect run scoring situations. The Jumbos were helped by two errors at the hands of the infield, and two overthrows by the catcher to third base enabled them to add to their number of runs...
Despite rumer of a sharp ent in the number of the Freshman class next year, Gummere said that he expected no drastle change in enrollment. "We expert to have around 1000 in the incoming class," he estimated...
...only definite change in college enrollment that I can predict, is a decline in the number of applicants around 1942 caused by the declining number of pupils in primary and secondary schools in recent years," Gummere stated...
...Classics, suffering from a decline in the number who are fortunate enough to know the ancient languages, would receive no harm if a course were given with reading in English translation, although this certainly would be a blow to the dignity of moribund classicism. Yet this might in the end be beneficial. It would make the present low state of the classics plain even to those who occupy commanding positions in its Ivory Tower, and by dispelling false pride based on illusions of grandeur, stimulate them to new thought on how best to use the unquestionable values that are still...
...only were many Freshmen shocked by the large number rebuked, but were also amazed at the often unfair, and completely undemocratic method of choice which allows admittance of men on probation, while turning away honor students. Yet when the University attempts to explain away the situation, it invariably points to a number of men, not admitted, but "ineligible." How can a University boasting a liberal point of view condone a system of education which segregates the poorer students, so that they may steep together (sic) in their intellectual inertia? Is not the House just the place where they might find...