Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...investigation which has just been completed at Princeton in regard to the number taking regular exercise in the form of some college sport reports that 850 men is the approximate total. The total of hours per week is 1315, resulting in an individual average of only 1 hour and 30 minutes per week. A small proportion of the men are members of the university and freshman squads; the remainder consists of upper-classmen taking voluntary exercise, and of about 300 freshmen taking compulsory athletics...
...Dance Committee has made arrangements with the Franklin Motor Cabs, Inc., by which a 20 per cent. reduction will be given members of the Junior class on all taxicab service to and from the Union on the evening of February 18. Members of the class should communicate with the agent at the Hotel Somerset to make individual arrangements...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in so far as their courses are concerned, that for the academic year 1916-1917, Graduate Students in Newton Theological Institution and students in the Senior Class who are already Bachelors of Arts, who have attained an average grade of not less than 85 per cent. during the preceding year in the school, may with the approval of both faculties register in the Divinity School, and take, without charge, a maximum of two courses in the University as part of their year's work in Newton Theological Institution; it being understood that this agreement does...
...have been erected at a cost of $4,157,480. The teaching faculty has been increased from 100 to 195, and the salary budget from $195,135 yearly to $401,310. While costs have thus been multiplied by two, the increase of students has been slightly less than 20 per cent. The students pay but little more in tuition for the enlarged faculties. These have been made possible by special gifts, like that of Mr. Proctor and bequests like that of Mrs. Swann. The professors have gained but little in salary, a fact to which the authorities 'point with regret...
...That an effective defence against an enterprising enemy in the Philippines could be made with a deficiency of 33 per cent of the manning details of the coast defences of Manila and Subig Bay and with a mobile force of a little over 7,000 American troops, supplemented by less than 6,000 Philippine Scouts, is manifestly impossible; that the great water-way of the Panama Canal cannot be protected against the operations of a first-class military power by the present or proposed garrison we contemplate placing there without the power and ability to reinforce it rapidly by troops...