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Statistics compiled by Professor Greenough, of the department of English, from the mid-year marks of the Freshmen in "English A" speak very favorably for the new plan of admission to College, which is being tried out this year for the first time...
...work of men in "English A" who entered College under the new plan was conspicuously better than that of the other men in the course. Eight per cent, of the men who entered under the old plan did well enough in the first half-year to be exempted from further prescribed English composition, but no fewer than nineteen per cent, of the men who entered under the new plan were exempted...
Again, sixteen and five-tenths percent. of the men who entered under the old plan received honor grades (A or B), as against thirty per cent. of the men who entered under the new plan. Most striking of all, perhaps, is the fact that ninety-one per cent. of the men who entered under the new plan were reported at the mid-years as having done a satisfactory half-year's work in English, that is, as receiving grade C, or better; but against this ninety-one per cent. of new plan men doing satisfactory work appears the fact that...
There will be a meeting of all candidates for the University and Freshman lacrosse teams in Lower Massachusetts tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock, at which the plans for the season will be announced. Captain P. Gustafson '12 and P. C. Nash '11, captain of last year's championship team will speak. Contrary to the plan followed in previous years, there will be no preliminary practice in Hemenway Gymnasium, but work will start on Soldiers Field next week...
...systematize and simplify social service researches by publishing a bulletin, giving an account of the council's current activities and of the material collected, to which other societies may refer, thus avoiding the duplication of work which is now such an impediment to progress. President Lowell has welcomed the plan very heartily, and Harvard has given a room in Emerson Hall to be used as an office. The officers of the council are: president, Dean Edwin F. Gay, of the Graduate School of Business Administration; director, Robert F. Foerster H.'06, instructor in ethics; chairman of the executive committee, Miss...