Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alumni Bulletin last year, statistics were printed which show that between one-third and one-half of Harvard's undergraduates were earning money either in term time, in the summer, or during the entire year. That such a large proportion of students is able to obtain work is due mainly to the assistance of the Employment Bureau. According to the report of the secretary for last year the number of positions provided was almost 2,000 and the total amount earned by the students during the whole year was over $100,000. The struggles and achievements of other men sink...
Since the recent inauguration of the movement for a new University Gymnasium, a number of prominent graduates have expressed their desire to aid in the work, provided the undergraduate student body shows itself truly anxious for the new building. Inasmuch as the final decision of this question will very probably be left to the members of the College, it is extremely urgent that the students show their willingness to share their part of the burden in supporting the project, in purse as well as in spirit. If the undergraduate body will pledge a certain amount of the required...
Harvard's supremacy in debating is again restored. Last evening the two teams representing the University won from their opponents, Yale and Princeton, and showed marked superiority in the presentation of the subject and skill in reasoning. These victories show that debating at Harvard is not declining because it is more in the hands of the undergraduates, for every member of the team against Yale is a student in the College. With the assurance that debating on an undergraduate plane is worthy of the best support because capable of good accomplishment, this excellent form of intellectual activity should continue...
...committees for each week to decide what it will be, although refreshments will be served regularly. This is the first time in the history of the College that weekly entertainments have been organized by a class, and it is hoped that all the members will appreciate the fact, and show their appreciation by attending regularly. The entertainment committee will be announced at the class meeting Monday. Invitations have been issued to every member of the class, and, in case anyone fails to receive one, he should consider himself invited anyway...
...year examinations is 90. Of this number 7 7-9 per cent are ranked Seniors; 13 3-9 per cent are ranked Juniors; 37 7-9 per cent are ranked Sophomores; the same number are ranked Freshmen; and 3 3-9 per cent are unclassified. These figures show practically the same feature, noted in regard to the figures concerning men dropped from the College, namely, as a class approaches its Senior year the proportion of its deficiency in scholarship becomes correspondingly less...