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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of very youthful students who are about to complete their college careers. A full score of them have not yet reached their twentieth birthday while more than a hundred others are as yet shy of the formal attainment of manhood. It is also revealed that five percent of the class are of foreign birth, and that the University draws a greater number of foreign students from Poland than any other country...
...highest in the number of contributors, 248 men from this class having made donations to the Fund. It is followed by the class of 1908 with 159, and the class 1904 with 129 contributors. In the order of percentage of givers the class of 1885 stands first with 43.3 percent the class of 1874 second with 45.6 percent, and the class of 1877 third with 40 percent...
...have furnished only 30 supporters of the project, while the small remaining number is divided between the Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From the cards that private dining rooms will receive little support if the University dining hall is ever erected. Less than five percent of the students who signified their willingness to eat in the dining hall would also pay an additional fee to have their meals served in private rooms...
...Kenneth MacGowan, and the subsequent production of three Dramatic Club plays on Broadway are convincing evidence that the Dramatic Club does have some influence on the American stage. But those who should take most pride in this fact ignore it, the spectators at the Club's performance consisting twenty percent, of students in the University and eighty per cent of outsiders. Harvard's only dramatic contributions are being received apathetically by the under graduates and though the Club may do its best, little of value can be accomplished while this state of affairs exists. K. A. PERRY...
...China. Whether people realize it or not, the white race has dominated China for years, and it is only right that the Chinese be allowed to determine their own policies the same as do other nations of the world. For years the tax in China has been regularly 5 percent, and to change this the consent of 13 nations has been necessary. It is easy to see that with such conditions to meet, the country has advanced but slowly...