Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...separate bedrooms. It is estimated that if such a building were available in Boston at least 40,000 sailors would sleep in it each year. In Brooklyn, where the building is about twice the size of the one needed in Boston, the sailors themselves pay 80 per cent of the cost of operation and over 100,000 men slept in it during 1914. Nearly 300 men are turned away nightly while the fleet is in port...
...third year all Freshmen were given a physical examination; the results this year showing a remarkable similarity to those of the past two classes. An innovation this year was the introduction of a special study of posture and of feet. About 75 per cent. of the Freshmen stood poorly...
...found that approximately 75 per cent. of the Freshmen stood poorly and therefore might be regarded as possible candidates for the subsequent evils dependent upon faulty posture. Where-ever possible simple directions were given for the correction of this fault. On the other hand 88 per cent. of the Freshmen presented themselves with good sound feet. In this field it is easy to see a splendid opportunity for improving the physical equipment of the students...
...bring about a possible stagnation in industry due to over development of mechanical equipment and to diminution of able-bodied workers. As ac corollary it anticipates a considerable supply of available money, reasonably low interest rates, and a substantial home demand for Government obligations obtainable to yield from 5 per cent to 7 per cent, as at present. --The Outlook...
With college graduate stock it has been calculated by experts that each family not childless must produce 3.7 children on an average in order barely to perpetuate the race. The actual number at Harvard is only 2.06. In other words Harvard graduates are the fathers of only 56 per cent, of the children necessary to continue their stock...