Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...membership there has also been a substantial gain of 227 over the corresponding figures of a year ago, making the total present membership 2928. As the operating expenses of the year have been about the same there is every probability that at least the usual 9 per cent, dividend will be declared at the end of this year's business...
...clothing will be distributed among local charitable organizations, but most of the text-books will be kept in the Phillips Brooks House loan library, to be used by students on payment of five cents per volume. The magazines will be sent to the seamen's mission and later distributed aboard ships...
...hands of the undergraduate body, and implied that the vote of the Forum, as expressing such opinion, would have an important bearing on the Council's decision next Monday. It is absurd to call last evening's vote an expression of undergraduate opinion. Altogether less than 3 per cent of the College voted in hockey's favor, and excluding those men vitally connected with the game as a University sport, only 1 and 1-2 per cent. In the discussion of other timely and absorbing questions at previous Forums it is true that the number of men attending has been...
...given to the public by Columbia University to show that large numbers of students are earning during the summer at least part of the money necessary to secure their education. The record for two hundred students shows that they earned $37,602 during the summer--an average of $20 per week. While no such figures have been compiled for Harvard students; it is quite safe to venture the opinion that a majority of the students here earn during the summer months something toward the defrayment of their expenses. To carry out to a logical completion the figures that were compiled...
...letters awarded in the last five years, beginning in 1907-08, in football, baseball, crew, and track, 69 per cent, went to men from private schools, 27 per cent, to those from public schools, and 4 per cent, to those entering from other colleges. The number of private school men holding letters is two and one-half times as great as the number of public school men. The list by schools in the five years under consideration is as follows: private, 136; public, 53; other colleges, 8. The figures do not include letters awarded to managers, or to players...