Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been speculating as to the number of Harvard men engaged in the war. It is not surprising that the graduate schools have suffered the greatest decrease in attendance, since this group of students is composed entirely of men in the draft age, but a total decrease of 36 per cent. in the College is real proof of how the undergraduate is answering his country's call. The Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes with their respective losses of 50, 44, and 30 per cent. reflects nothing but credit on the spirit of willingness to serve which was manifested...
...profits certain amounts for the reserves there remained available for dividends at the main store $16,894.13 and at the Technology branch $5,928.51, a total of $22,822.64. The amount so available a year ago was $15,202.84. Last year a dividend at the rate of nine per cent, on all cash sales and seven per cent, on all credit sales was paid to members and the net earnings of the Society would permit the payment of dividends at the same rate this autumn. In view, however, of the almost certain reduction in the number of students...
...heat, insurance and many other items will be as large as ever, some of them larger. The Superintendent and the Directors, in preparing the expense budget for 1917-18 have reduced the past year's total (chiefly by reducing the number of employees) to the extent of about ten per cent. It did not appear practicable to go further without endangering the permanent interests of the business by giving inferior service to customers. But the reduction in attendance will certainly be much more than ten per cent. and the Co-operative Society will be very fortunate if its business does...
...scholarship is of the value of $1500 per annum, tenable at the University of Oxford, England, for a period of three years. Competitors must be citizens of the United States, between 19 and 25 years of age, and must, before the date of entry on residence at Oxford, have completed at least their second year at some regular degree-granting American university or college. Candidates having their domicile in the State and those who have received any large part of their education there are alike eligible...
...their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those who were best in the field of war and brought them into an atmosphere where the idea of thorough instruction was per-eminent. And when the wheels were set going the product was looked at and found to be good. It is being proved good now and will be proved better soon...