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...examinations including a wider range of subjects than has ever been given. Under the former scheme of admission examinations, the common method of entering was by presenting all the required elementary subjects, together with either French or German, and, of the advanced subjects, Latin and Greek with composition. The per cent. of candidates choosing that set of subjects for the years 1883 to 1886 inclusive was 221 out of 315. In 1888 the average had been lowered to 144 candidates out of 315. By the remaining 171 men, seventy-five different combinations of subjects were presented. The result of this...
...university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew was 69, the Mott Haven team 72, the nine 74, the lacrosse team 76. Only one of these 56 men had a mark of less than 40 per cent., while a member of the nine lead the list with 92 per cent. The average percentage of the freshman class in that year was 69; that of the freshman crew and nine, 61; of the lacrosse team, 67. The class of '86 had an average of 76. The average...
...freshmen had an avermark calculated at 68 per cent. The class eleven had 60 per cent. The class eleven had 60 per cent, the nine 62, the crew 67, and the lacrosse team 71. The average percentage of the class of '87 was 76. The average mark of the seniors in the university crew and nine, and in the football, lacrosse and Mott Haven teams was 75 per cent. The lowest mark received was 65 per cent., while seven men were awarded Commencement parts, and one received honors...
...thirty-four men who made no answer to the enquiries of the committee on athletics last spring received an average mark for the year 1887-88. calculated at 64.1 per cent. Those who set themselves down in the circular as taking no exercise, 14 in number, had an average of 67.8 per cent.; and the forty-four men who had attended no intercollegiate contests in Cambridge had a mark of 74.9 per cent. The records from which these marks were computed were incomplete, but the averages are probably almost correct for the year...
...School has increased in the number of its students 20 per cent. during the last year. The Story professorship was again filled after a vacancy of four years. The Harvard Law Association, also, gave $1100 to increase the amount of instruction in constitutional law during the year...