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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class during his last two school years, and had included studies which would satisfy the New Plan requirements, might be admitted without examination. This plan checked the growth in the number of students entering Harvard under the New Plan. In 1925 314 Freshmen entered without examination, 32 percent of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD PLAN OF ADMISSION IS POPULAR AT HARVARD | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...goal of the Fund is to attain as near a 100 percent subscription list as possible, and the class of 1926, through the newly-adopted medium of the Fund, last year achieved a larger percentage than any preceeding class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FUND TO GATHER 1927 GIFT | 3/24/1927 | See Source »

...With 47 percent of the undergraduates in Harvard College candidates for the degree with distinction last June, Dean C. N. Greenough in his annual report to the President noted a further trend upward. The proportion of candidates had been watched for the three preceding college years and found to be steadily rising, but the figures for the past term topped all previous records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENOUGH SEES COLLEGE ADVANCE | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

...class of 1929 was found to have made a slightly poorer record than the previous Freshman class, having 1.6 percent fewer men on the Dean's List, 1.8 percent more men with unsatisfactory records, and approximately the same number whose connection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENOUGH SEES COLLEGE ADVANCE | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

This understanding, engendered in the open minds of audiences in every country, will lessen hatred between countries, thus bringing nearer the arrival of world peace said Mr Hays. The militons who daily throng to see American films, 90 percent of which are made by the companies under my supervision, are influenced to an extent never possible by books or the press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYS SAYS MOVIES ARE WORLD FORCE | 3/16/1927 | See Source »

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