Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many of the above are included in an organization which terms itself the Speaker's Club? We venture to say not 50 per cent of the debaters, not 20 per cent. of the candidates for the public speaking contests, while none of those successful in the Boylston contest are "Speakers...
...62nd Congress, of 92 Senators 61, or 66.3 per cent., are college graduates; and of these, three, or a little less than 3.3. per cent., are Harvard men. In the House of Representatives there are 391 members, of whom 256, or 65.5 per cent., have had a college education. Thirteen congressmen, or a little less than 3.3. per cent., are graduates of Harvard. It will be noticed that the percentages of college men and of Harvard graduates are almost identical in the Senate and the House. The figures for the House show an increase of three Harvard men since...
...Cabinet the highest percentages are to be found. All the ministers are college men. F. H. Hitchcock '91, Postmaster-General, and G. von L. Meyer '79, Secretary of the Navy, are both graduates of Harvard. This gives the exceedingly high figure of 22.2 per cent. of the total number...
...schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...would unquestionably cost $2500 for an individual to publish a single copy of such a book; nevertheless the album is reported as for sale for $6.25 per copy which is 75 cents less than last year's price. The editors have presented to their classmates a work which truly represents to the world our grand old University