Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light one of the most sinister vices that can affliot a civilized community. The army reports from the different draft camps reveal an alarming percentage of illiteracy among the draftees, not only with men of foreign birth but also among the native born Americans. New estimates represent, the number of illiterates in the country as being far above the census reports of the last decade...
...young, the old, the rich, the poor alike and reduces ignorance in the lower classes to a smaller proportion than in any European country. Now the veil is rent and we see a hideous condition of things; and at the same time there appears the root of a number of evils...
...dollars and a half has been decided upon as the price of the Senior book. Inasmuch as only a limited number are to be printed, it will be to the advantage of all Seniors to send in their orders with their "lives" on the special blank provided for that purpose...
...collection of first editions, manuscripts, portraits, and other memorials of James Russell Lowell '38, as well as a number of his books in attractive editions for reading, will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library during the week. Other rare items of interest in connection with Lowell will be on exhibition at the same time in the Widener Room...
...wide acquaintance tends to create confidence in their choice. It would give a candidate too great an advantage if but one were proposed, while if the former officers named three, the class would be robbed of a stimulus for nominating men by petition since three candidates are the required number for each office. Thus two seems to be the proper number for the initial selection. A move will be made in time to allow the members of the class to draw up any number of petitions...