Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What then do statistics show with regard to the class of 1927. Perhaps the most striking fact is the number of very youthful students who are about to complete their college careers. A full score of them have not yet reached their twentieth birthday while more than a hundred others are as yet shy of the formal attainment of manhood. It is also revealed that five percent of the class are of foreign birth, and that the University draws a greater number of foreign students from Poland than any other country...
...June 20--The Princeton polo quartet defeated the Harvard mallet-men at the Westchester Biltmore Club here this afternoon by a 9 to 1 score. The Crimson team showed its lack of tournament experience throughout the entire game, the riders being frequently beaten to the ball by their more experienced opponents...
...left hand. Mr. Lawrence determined to do likewise. This was no easy task for a man past youth to set himself. Yet it was accomplished. Six months after his misfortune, he had attained sufficient skill to have occasional works again accepted by Harper's. Now that a full score of years has passed, he is able to exhibit water colors painted with his left hand better than illustrations painted with his right...
...America, at Asbury Park, N. J., for their 121st annual session, learned that they had had but $455,345.71 to spend for foreign missions last year. That was $15,406.05 (nearly 4%) less than the missions got in 1925, although they had asked a 20% increase. Grieved on this score, the General Synod was glad to hear Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed and underworked youths who should be steered into the path...
Otto H. Kahn last week had delivered to him his new, triple-engined motorboat Okeha II, great, comfortable vessel, of the type that a score of Manhattan financiers have been buying to carry them swiftly from Long Island Sound summer homes to Manhattan docks. Mr. Kahn's boat cost him approximately $85,000; costs more than $100 daily to operate...