Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other statistics given out yesterday reveal a number of interesting facts in regard to the Freshman Class. The compilations show that of the 853 students entering the class of 1932, 485 were graduates of private preparatory schools and 368 of public high schools, or 57 and 43 per cent...
...meeting of lettermen held yesterday afternoon, Ogden Phipps '31, of New York City, was elected captain of next year's squash team. He succeeds W. J. Iselin '29 leader and number one man on this winter's class A aggregation...
...made Trinity College undergraduates read serious books in their spare time. But Dr. Cadman's daily counsel got under someone's skin and now every man in the Hartford school will read a good back. In fact, throughout the year each student is going to read a great number of good books selected from a list of recommended works. There is no connection between this requirement and any course. On the contrary, it is outside reading for pleasure--with two pages of typed notes due on each hundred pages of reading. In this manner the joy of thought-provoking reading...
While the number of trust funds for charitable enterprise are not so numerous as to make the field closed to any newcomers, many people may feel that Senator Couzens' departure from the beaten path is timely. Much can be said about the advantages of a permanent fund for philanthropic purposes. But it is also possible that the seventeen and a half million dollars which the retired automobile manufacturer proposes to spend in the next quarter century will be more advantageous when used in a concentrated form than if strung out indefinitely and administered by future trustees...
...giving books within a student's particular field of concentration has been somewhat changed this year, and instead books are being presented which are of more general bibliographical interest. More copies than usual have been bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover...