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...fact that one-fourth of our men died of dysentery and other like diseases shows the condition of our food supply. And in addition to lack of food, the water supply was very limited and often poisonous...
...Since 1914 the purchasing power of the franc has sunk to about one-fourth...
Today is the last day for payment of the University term-bill for the third quarter. This bill includes one-fourth of the tuition fee, and charges at the Dining Halls and the Union from November 1 to December 31. It must be paid at the Harvard Trust Company, and the Bursar has recommended that checks be sent in by mail...
Approximately one-fourth of the Juniors who have applied for rooms in the Yard next year will be disappointed in the allotment, it was announced last night by the Rooming Committee. Of the 433 who applied only about 300 will find accommodations...
...problem of rural education is difficult, in view of the fact that the 18,000,000 young people between the ages of 5 and 20 are scattered over an immense territory under extremely varied social and physical conditions. Two years ago one-fourth of the rural pupils in the U. S. attended one-room schools, which numbered 187,951. The aim of educators now-local, town, county, state and national-is to decrease that number, and to increase the number of institutions like the following, which Mr Abel gives as typical...