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...announcement in the CRIMSON this morning concerning the pamphlet just published by the University in which figures prove that not only have the proportion of entrants to Harvard from high and preparatory schools remained the same as the numbers have increased but that the enrollment is now even more representative of the country at large is more than merely entertaining reading. To those who have during the last few months interested themselves more and more in the function of the University these statistics are one more illuminating reference to a state of affairs which should be adequately understood...
That only three states of the Union have sent no students to the University during the past ten years, was a fact discovered upon the publication of a pamphlet containing a list of all the educational institutions in this country and abroad from which students have been admitted to the Freshman class during the decade from 1916 to 1925. A total of 832 schools in the United States is included on the list, representing all the states except Nevada. Wyoming and Kansas...
Admiral Fiske experimented with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, a work of 93,000 words. He had it printed to be read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement...
...Field '27, was appointed to supervise the publication of a pamphlet to contain all available information on scholarships which are open to American students, and hostellries and bureaux abroad at which American students can receive...
...which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend and secretary to Conrad, is also available in the Treasure Room...