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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...increase in registration this fall is very marked, each of the three classes being larger than in any previous year. Of the third year class 21 percent did not return, as against 32, 28, 36, 30, 34, and 44 per cent respectively, in six preceding years. The second year men failing to return make only 12 percent of the whole class, as against 25, 7, 23, 28, 24, and 27 per cent in former years...
...Percent., 65 1-3. Percent...
...points always to the greater difficulty of staying in Harvard. In the case of every class the figures show that a smaller percentage of Harvard men were able to get the degree in four years or less than was the case at Yale, the difference being 4-10 percent. in '94, 4 9-10 percent. in '95, and 3 per cent. in '96. In regard to the number of men getting their degrees in five and six years the statistics are again slightly in favor of Harvard, while the percentages of the men who left college without a degree...
...first place, it is fair to assume that in addition to the twenty-five percent of the class who spread, there are not more than twenty-five per cent who receive so many invitations to spreads that the business of entertaining and being entertained is, for them, exhausting. Granting, for the sake of argument, what is by no means established, that all these men desire a large season of festivity, and that a three-day celebration would be less of a strain than the present one day, we have still to consider the case of the other fifty per cent...
...payment of premium, or the insurance for the full amount of the policy being extended during a period shown therein, if no request is made, and no abatement from the death claim in case of death during the term of extended insurance The previlege of cash loans at five percent. interest for amounts shown in the policy, at stated times during the accumulation period (10, 15, or 20 years), after the policy has been five years in force. Six options in settlement, under the Ordinary Life form of policy, and as many as are applicable under other forms...