Word: overeers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The other man who is mentioned as an example of what men naturally weak can accomplish, is Page, the jumper. When young, Mr. Page was extremely fragile, and his limbs were so weak that they had to be supported. This infirmity he outgrew and overcame and at the time of...
There is a rule at Lehigh that a student receiving eighty-five per cent. or over in recitation, shall be exempt from examinations. As a result more than half the students passed last year without taking examinations.
Of the 250 college presidents in the United States, Yale, Ohio, Wesleyan University and Oberlin, each graduated eight; Harvard, Union, Princeton, Amherst, Washington and Jefferson, and Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania...
"There can be no doubt of the existence or a class such as the one described-indeed in so large a community of young men it would be strange if there was not. The almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a...
When the committee, appointed last year by the faculty, to consider the subject of college athletics, made its report, it was found that over two hundred of the men who had been examined by Dr. Sargent, had a physical development of over 675. That is higher than the best developed...