Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...jump, making an excellent racing start, and closed up the lead half a length in the first 20 strokes. The seconds were good at a low stroke, but when it had to be put up the first soon showed its superiority. Thus, after averaging about 32 strokes per minute, the first crew, spurting at the finish, swept over the line a victor with a two-lengths advantage...
...upper strata of mental ability--are accepted. The tests were not difficult. A series of reports was assigned the first-year class in marketing, and each report was turned over to the English department for criticism and correction. The results were astonishing. On the first assignment seventy-nine per cent. failed to write even fair English, and only three per cent. were above mediocrity. Other tests showed similar results. A distorted circular letter was given with the request to revise or re-write in better form. Less than one-half the class obtained passing grades, while fifty-five per cent...
...considers the Forum of April the second such a magnificent victory for the anti-military-science jingoes. A Forum on armament, which was held during the winter, resulted in a tie, while the Forum on April the second, on Summer Training Camps was carried in favor by a fourteen per cent. majority. Those who voted their approval of the camps realize that long and steady work is necessary to acquaint our high spirited public with the facts; but, nevertheless, it is difficult for them to regard the turning of a deadlock into a fourteen per cent. favorable majority as anything...
...first statistics showing the present average salaries received in business positions by former students of the Graduate School of Business Administration have recently been given out and are shown below. Taken in connection with the rapid growth of the School--an increase of forty per cent in enrollment this year over last year -- and with certain other facts as to the ready placing of all graduates in business positions, these figures are significant of the increasing success of the Harvard methods and of the growing importance of business schools all over the country...
...love to think that our government is on a very high basis, and it is in comparison to a few, but it is essentially militaristic. About 400,000 men are authoritatively employed bearing arms in time of peace. This includes 200,000 soldiers and two men or more per thousand of population who are policemen, sheriffs, jailers, etc. Every time the government exercises its functions, it uses, actually or potentially, the total brute force of the people. It is only the above mentioned standing army of 400,000 "that prevents the constitution and laws from being 'mere scraps of paper...