Word: per
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...standard by the freedom to establish what passing mark it should choose, but this freedom granted to the colleges seriously damages the whole theory of the uniform examination system; for there could be in the secondary schools no uniform preparation for two colleges requiring respectively 40 and 90 per cent of knowledge of the same subject; and it is even doubtful whether the same courses of study should be attempted in cases where the final results are to be so different...
Acting upon a petition recently submitted to the Corporation by the directors of the Harvard Dining Association, the Corporation has reduced the rate of interest on the "existing debt and advances," from six to five per cent. By this action, Memorial and Randall Halls are practically put upon the same basis in regard to their financial relations with the Corporation. This reduction will decrease the expenses of the Association for the year by nearly $700.00, the figures last year being...
...gross receipts of the Harvard-Yale football game amounted to $41,844.00. Of this sum Yale received 55 per cent., or $22,019.25, and Harvard 45 per cent., or $18,015.75, after a deduction of $1,809.00 for expenses had been made...
...whole class. In 1894 the entering class consisted of 567 members, with 270 from states other than Massachusetts. The percentage of outsiders in this case was 47 6-10. So far the statistics seemed satisfactory enough, showing as they did, a gain of nearly 6 per cent in the outside representation of the University. Going a little further, however, I discovered that of the 692 men who entered in the fall of 1899, only 321, or 46 3-10 per cent, came from without the state. Here was a decrease of 1 3-10 per cent in a period...
...provincial short-comings? Without casting slurs upon Massachusetts, I am free to say that it is the West that Harvard should look for new material in each new class; and yet the West, with a vastly larger population than in 1894, has diminished representation by nearly 1 1-2 per cent...