Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beneficiaries of scholarships maintained by Harvard Clubs do not sufficiently distinguish themselves as scholars in College, the Alumni Bulletin publishes some statistic dealing with the honor men of 1916. These figures show that of the 143 men who received honors at the last Commencement, 61, or nearly 43 per cent received financial aid as Freshmen. For this financial support thirteen Harvard Clubs and several separate scholarship foundations are responsible. The following is the table given the Bulletin: Men with "cum laude" 66 Scholarship holders 24 Men with distinctions in one subject 38 Scholarship holders 13 Men with "magna cum laude...
...least necessity exists for Plattsburg graduates to forfeit 10 per cent. of the money the government now owes them. A shower of circulars from claim agents in Washington gives the contrary impression. The facts are these: Congress has appropriated sufficient money to reimburse every man who attended Plattsburg this summer for all his expenses at camp, and for his transportation there and back. The Military Training Camps Association is now engaged in obtaining this money from the War Department, and will see that each man receives his due without paying a cent in commission. The claim agents in Washington...
...second chapter, Dr. Howe takes up that most complex and insoluble question, "What Protection is Adequate?" He shows our relative naval protection per mile of coast line compared with other nations, and the strength of our army on a war footing compared with our population and the territory we have to protect. He further explains the measures that have already been passed by Congress and shows their unsuitability to our needs at the present time. The remainder of the book contains valuable statistics on preparedness, what it can do for the individual and the best methods of impressing it upon...
...whom 200 are serving the Fatherland in various ways. Of these women 4,600 are Germans. There are 150 students, not German, who come mostly from Austria, Switzerland and America. Evidently it is no longer Teutonic to exclude women; they now make up 9 per cent. of the students, as compared with 4.4 per cent. in former years...
...residence beginning in October, 1917, is awarded by the Committee of Selection for Massachusetts, the scholar to be elected by the Committee from among such persons as shall have passed the qualifying examinations announced above. The stipend of the scholarship as fixed by the founder is fifteen hundred dollars per annum...