Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University team has profited by its experience against the McGill team last Saturday and should show up well. The team-play has improved, and the forwards are gaining in speed and endurance. Hornblower is the most consistent player of the forwards, while Huntington is always strong on the defence. Pierce, who will replace Leslie at left end, is fairly fast but is handicapped by lack of weight. St. Francis Xavier has four players from last year's championship team and is considered very strong, so a close game should result...
...University Catalogue shows a total enrollment this year of 6279, a decrease of 29 from last year's figures. The greatest loss occurred in the enrollment of the Summer School, amounting to 304. If this were excluded there would be a net gain of 275. The Lawrence Scientific School has been discontinued as an undergraduate department. The College and the Graduate School of Business Administration show decreases, but these are more than offset by increases in the enrollment of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences and of Applied Sciences. All the professional schools show increases except the Medical School...
...professional schools collectively show a satisfactory increase over last year, which argues for efficient administration and maintenance of prestige. The College, including the recently abolished Lawrence Scientific School, shows a decrease of 61, whereas last year there was an increase of 1 student...
...higher education in the regions where population is increasing most rapidly. On the other hand, the experience and prestige of the Harvard graduate schools leaves them almost preeminent, and as more and more men each year demand professional training it is only natural that the graduate departments should show a constant and steady increase...
Since statistics show that the average candidate for admission to Harvard College obtains almost exactly the necessary 26 points, it would seem that the requirements for entrance are well adapted to the curricula of the schools at which men prepare. It is true, however, that this average is a mean of two extremes, about which the individual cases tend to group themselves. Men are liable to enter either with points to spare or with conditions; and a subject for discussion lies in the fact that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which...