Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduates of public and private schools in scholarship at Harvard is not a very accurate method of judging the ability of these schools even in the field of developing scholars, leaving aside the question of their ability in producing useful and efficient citizens. While from 90 to 95 per cent, of the men at a boarding school usually go to college, the worst scholars along with the best, quite a different condition obtains at the high schools. There, many leave to go directly to work, while those who enter College are men of intellectual ability above the average, if they...
...food and service soon produced a telling effect. Three weeks later the average attendance for each meal was 967, over a hundred more than the maximum attendance last year. This increase in attendance means that on an average so far this year over 2000 more meals have been served per week than last year...
Economically the negro has made remarkable progress. In the last ten years, the number of negro farmers has increased 19 per cent., while the increase of white farmers is only 9 per cent. Again, at the time of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only 3 per cent. of the negroes in the United States could read or write, whereas now over 57 per cent. can,--a higher average than many countries of Europe can boast...
...Punts, 14 19 Yards gained by punts, 482 551 Average length of punts in yards, 34 29 Yards gained by running back punts, 21 41 Rushes from scrimmage, 32 39 Yards gained by rushes from scrimmage, 106 146 Yards lost by rushes, 14 20 Average yards gained per rush, 2.8 3.2 First downs gained, 4 3 Yards penalized, 45 23 Onside kicks, 1 8 Yards gained by onside kicks, 0 Forward passes, 6 4 Yards gained by forward passes...
...University and Freshman shooting teams will meet the Yale shooting teams at the traps on Soldiers Field this morning at 10 o'clock. The match will be for fifty birds per man, the teams being composed of five men each...