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...Harvard has rolled up 210 points through 27 touchdowns, 9 field-goals, 19 goals from touchdowns, and a safety, while Yale has made a total of 121 points by means of 16 touchdowns, 4 field-goals, and 13 goals from touchdowns. Harvard has made one-third as many field goals as touchdowns, Yale one-fourth as many. Harvard's points were made in 8 games; Yale has played 9 games, two of them being scoreless. It will be noted that after 16 touchdowns, Yale kicked the goal 13 times, while Harvard kicked...
...conditions of the bequest provide that three-fourths of the amount shall be devoted to the lecturer's salary, and one-fourth to the publishing of the lecture: that the lecture shall not form a part of the usual college course, nor be delivered by any professor or tutor as a part of his usual routine of instruction; and that the lecturer shall be appointed at least six months before the proposed delivery of the lecture. The date for this year's lecture has not been decided...
...that almost one-fourth of college graduates go into business, and the calling is second only to teaching in popularity, constant attention to such accusations is imperative. Harvard offers laboratories for the use of future scientists; and libraries for the benefit of future teachers and scholars. Many a weighty problem arises upon which the future reformer may try his wits. For the journalist of the future there are journals, and for the artist of the future there is art. But the proposition that seems to be ignored is that for the future business man there are opportunities for the exercise...
...units of school work, except that candidates who present both Elementary Latin and Elementary Greek will be admitted without conditions on 15 1-2 units of school work. In not less than five units a candidate must pass examinations with grades above D. (A "unit" amounts approximately to one-fourth year of school work...
...Plan of Admission to Harvard College. In the first place, an attempt has been made to foster the study of Greek by requiring one less examination if the candidate offers both elementary Greek and Latin. A change has been made in the nomenclature of the examination system: instead of requiring 26 "points" for admission the candidate must pass in studies amounting to 16 1-2 "units" of school work, a unit amounting approximately to one-fourth year of school work. However, provided the applicant for admission offers both elementary Latin and Greek he will be allowed to enter with...