Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There were eighteen teams entered in the series, these being cut down until six remained for the round robin. In the round robin each team met the other five, the final result being as follows: Team Won Lost Per cent Dink Stovers, 5 0 1.000 Nine Muses, 3 1 .750 Holy Jokers, 3 2 .600 Craigies, 2 3 .400 Mud Sox, 1 3 .250 Midnight Sons...
...scholarship in the Freshman class, and in that way to elevate progressively the scholarship standards of the upper classes. That the problem lies with the Freshman class is shown by an examination of figures showing the percentages in the various classes of men winning academic distinction. Only ten per cent, of last year's Freshman class won positions in the first or second group. Of the Sophomores, eleven per cent, were honor men, and of the Juniors sixteen per cent. These figures not only reveal a progressive interest in and attention to scholarship, but they offer the suggestion than...
...place of this system the Student Council recommends one which will do away with the evident faults outlined above. Instead of making the mid-year and final examinations count from fifty to eighty per cent. of a student's work in a course, the Council recommends that a system of regular hour examinations at frequent intervals be substituted, the mid-year and final examinations being counted much less than at present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen...
...given to other subjects. On the subject of athletics the most interesting article is one on Harvard's Captains by H. S. Ballou, Jr. The purpose of this article is to show what becomes of our University captains when they leave college. The author points out that 13 per cent. of the captains of University baseball, football, and crew prior to 1905 are mentioned in Who's Who. and that this is slightly higher than the number of Phi Beta Kappa members so recorded for the same period. The author modestly admits that this does not prove very much...