Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Physical Colloquium. Lecture on "The Thermal Properties of Water up to 80 Degrees and 12,000 kgm. per sq. cm.," by Dr. Bridgman, in Room 25 of Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Physical Colloquium. Lecture on "The Thermal Properties of Water up to 80 Degrees and 12,000 kgm. per sq. cm., by Dr. Bridgman, in Room 25 of Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
While Mr. Taft had a comfortable lead over Mr. Roosevelt, he failed to receive 60 per cent. of the total Republican votes, which may be significant of future events. On the other hand, Governor Wilson, in a field of six Democrats, received 77 per cent. of the total Democratic vote, and that also may be significant...
...first place, the fact that "out of the five hundred and nineteen who entered College in September, 1910, only two hundred and one had shown an ability to read either French or German by Christmas of the next year" seems to us very remarkable. Almost 50 per cent. have failed. That these oral examinations easily penetrate, so to speak, the weak points in the Freshman academic armor, is all too evident. This deplorable record is the best proof of the wisdom in the provision of such tests. And that seems to be little doubt that, now that this noticeable deficiency...
President Lowell examined the records of all Harvard men who graduated from the Law school for the twenty years previous to 1910. He found that of those men who graduated from College with a plain degree-that is without a "cum laude"-38 out of 577, or 6.6 per cent, obtained "cum laude" in the Law School. Of those who graduated from College with a "cum laude", 66 out of 290, or 22.7 percent., won this honor in the Law School; of those who graduated from college with a "magna cum laude", 80 out of 204, or 39.2 percent...