Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Papers in many places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public...
...unclassified students, show the intelligence of an enlightened group of parents on the subject of health, according to Dr. Roger 1. Lee '02, Professor of Hygiene, who has been in charge of the examinations. Figures compiled at his office show that very few Freshmen have neglected teeth; that 37.2 per cent. wear glasses; that very few have such gross, uncorrected defects of the eye that they need the immediate attention of the oculist; and that 43.6 per cent. have already had their tonsils removed. Only four individuals were found whose tonsils were so obviously diseased that a removal might seem...
...rating of Freshmen from the stand point of bodily mechanics showed that 80 per cent, of the incoming class do not use their bodies well. In this test the physicians examined the men's feet, watched how they used them and studied also how the men stood and whether their statics proved satisfactory from a mechanical point of view. This year only 0.97 per cent. of the Freshmen were grouped in Class A as having a good mechanical use of the body; 14.8 per cent. fell in Class B as being fairly good in this respect; 49.3 per cent. were...
...before yesterday thirty-five men reported for the Freshman hockey team. Yesterday seven men appeared. Is the University to understand that this is a true index of the Freshman spirit? Is it correct to assume that the first cold day will see eighty per cent of the Freshman hockey squad huddled around the Smith, Standish and Gore Hall fire-places...
...fund appropriated for scholarships will be allotted to States on the basis of $10 per 1,000 inhabitants and it is expected that more than 46,000 scholarships will be awarded during the coming year. Of these, the majority will be given for Y. M. C. A. courses, correspondence schools, etc., and only 200 will be in the colleges, universities, and technical schools of this country...