Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last year, however, while only 27 per cent. of the third-year class were Harvard men, 31 per cent. of those receiving a grade of A were graduates of the College; and while only 28 per cent. of the two lower classes were Harvard men, one-third of the thirty elected to the Law Review were graduates of Harvard. Two years ago the Sears prizes, given to the four men of highest standing in the second and third-year classes,--two to each class,--were won by graduates of other institutions. This year Harvard men won three of the four...
Although the price of chemicals and chemical apparatus has risen 25 per cent. on account of the war, the Department of Chemistry has decided to make no raise in the laboratory fees, but students are especially warned that breakage charges will be at least 25 per cent. higher than usual this year. This scarcity of material was realized to a certain degree last year, but this year its full extent is being felt, owing to the exhaustion of reserve supplies in this country...
Entries for the fall tennis tournament for the University championship in doubles close this evening at 6 o'clock. Blue-books are at Leavitt & Peirce's, and the entry fee is $1 per team. No doubles matches will be played before Wednesday...
...Spanish-American War twenty-five per cent of the American soldiers contracted typhoid fever. In the present European War the disease has been almost entirely stamped out due to the practice of inoculation...
...most striking feature of the enrolment is the increase shown by all the graduate Schools. The Graduate School of Business Administration leads with an approximate increase of 30 per cent. The Divinity School figures speak for the vitality of the theological department of the University, while the Law School, Dental School, and Medical School all show an increase of more than 10 per cent. The registration of Freshmen shows a slight decrease, due probably to the fact that last year was the initial year of the Freshman Dormitories. The figures show the enrolment of the University...