Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...That the "rich man's college" myth, the theory that wealthy boys dominate the life of Harvard, is effectively dissipated, since about 60 per cent. of these college leaders, and among them some of the most successful and prominent earned at least part of their expenses, making an average of $900 per man, while six of them actually earned more than they spent...
...expenses of the trip will include transportation to and from the camp, the cost of uniforms (about $7.66 per man), and subsistence (about ($1.75 per week). A complete list of the articles to be purchased and of those furnished by the government will be found in the issue of the CRIMSON for May 2. Applications for admittance to the camps must be forwarded to the War Department on or before June 20. Members of the University wishing to attend who have not already applied should communicate with A. J. Lowrey '13, Holworthy 5, at once...
...only 53 per cent of the Freshman class have contributed their class dues of $1 apiece. Consequently the class treasury has not been able to meet the expenses incurred by the several class smokers and the two brass bands which have led the class to the Freshman track meet and baseball game with Yale. The class is now $75 in debt. In view of this fact, every man who has not as yet paid his fee of $1 should give it to one of the collectors immediately, or mail it to W. Blanchard, Randolph...
...five and B in the other. Again, eleven students obtained an average of 70 in their entrance tests; in their college work they averaged all the way from D to A. Of the students who were in the lower half of the group in entrance work, nearly 40 per cent are found in the upper half in the last three years of college; and of the dozen students who ranked highest at entrance, some were in the lowest fifth of the class by Junior year. "There is," says Professor Thorndike, "every reason to believe that of those students...
Ithaca, N. Y. May 22, 1913.--The University and Freshman crews arrived here this morning at 11.30 o'clock. During the afternoon the crews paddled across the lake and went over the two-mile course, rowing at about twenty-five strokes per minute, and raising it in the last quarter-mile to about thirty...