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...marking system at Columbia has been abolished, and now a student is simply rated as proficient or deficient. The number of allowed absences has been reduced from one-fourth to onefifthy of the whole number of recitations...
...Batchelder, L. S., were the entries for the standing high jump. The bar was started at three feet eight inches. All cleared successfully, till it reached four feet five inches. Mandell retired at four feet six and three-fourth inches. Clark and Lund at four feet eight and one-fourth inches. Rogers cleared this height and won the event. Clark and Lund then tried for second place, which was won by Lund at four feet six and three-fourth inches...
...Tech meeting last Saturday was largely attended by the students, Harvard men comprising fully one-fourth of the audience. As is usual, the sparring was the main feature of the meeting, although the other events were well contested. The running high jump was won by Devens, '88, 5 feet 3-4 inches; running high kick, W. S. Phillips, at 8 feet 11 inches. Fence vault, was won by W. L. Dearbon...
...represented the amount of air which he breathed in when lying down as one. When standing, he took in one and one-third times as much. When walking at the rate of four miles an hour, fives times as much. When walking at the rate of six miles an hour, seven times as much. The increase is shown, perhaps, in a more striking way by Parker, estimating the different amounts in cubic inches. The flow of blood through the lungs is much less rapid when one takes little or no exercise; and the carbonic acid will not be removed from...
...publishing firm was taken, which is recognized as publishing the most representative list of American books. Here strictly professional books were ruled out, and the authors divided into two classes, the dead and the living. Of the dead there are forty-two names. Ten, or less than one-fourth were not college men. Of the living, we count 133 names. Fifty-one, or more than one third, are not college men. Of course, this cannot be called a scientific test, yet it approximates such a test, and shows with tolerable force the ranks of literature are recruited from...