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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee favor such a system of examinations as has been adopted in the Middle States, then Harvard, with the rest of the New England colleges, would be called upon to decide whether or not general admission examinations should replace the present individual requirements. Sooner or later, at any rate, Harvard will probably face such a decision, in which the chief point at issue would be the question as to whether or not a compromise with other colleges on examinations would lower the notably high standard of the University. On this question and on the general theory of uniform entrance examinations...
Acting upon a petition recently submitted to the Corporation by the directors of the Harvard Dining Association, the Corporation has reduced the rate of interest on the "existing debt and advances," from six to five per cent. By this action, Memorial and Randall Halls are practically put upon the same basis in regard to their financial relations with the Corporation. This reduction will decrease the expenses of the Association for the year by nearly $700.00, the figures last year being...
Harvard, 22,670; Yale, 19,645; University of Pennsylvania, 18,946; Columbia, 17,050; University of Michigan, 17,025. A significant comment here is that although this 22,670 for Harvard represents all the graduates during two hundred and sixty four years, at the present rate of increase the number will be doubled in less than twenty...
...bicycles by means of arm and leg power. The operator sits on a sliding seat, puts his feet in a sliding boot rest, and grasps a lever in each hand. With a simultaneous use of both legs and body he can send the machine ahead at a great rate of speed, with little expenditure of force. The machine can be used by local muscles or by all at once, and is thus a better developer than even running or rowing. Dr. Sargent showed the uses of the inomotor in propelling boats, tricycles...
...Grand Canyon of the Colorado River last June in company with Professor Dodge of Columbia and Dr. Gregory of Yale. The party entered the plateau region at Flagstaff station on the south and spent twenty-two days in camp, travelling in wagons and on horseback at an average rate of twenty-five miles a day. They crossed the Colorado at Lee's Ferry and went out on the north at Milford...