Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ascertain the influence of the various conditions of life upon the growth and development of the individual, answers to certain questions were solicited. It often happened that these answers would account for some peculiarity of development, or some deficiency in the size of body or limbs, or for extreme muscular weakness that could not by otherwise explained. Immediately before and after the strength tests, the head and lungs were examined and any peculiarities noted...
...vast size...
...Yale in stating the size of the entering class it is customary to include the scientific school freshmen, this year numbering 106 and making the total number registered there 311. At Harvard the entries in the scientific school are not counted, nor are those of special students. The students in the Lawrence Scientific School are so few that it matters little whether they are counted or not; but as Harvard this year registers nearly if not quite 100 new special students, it would be fair, according to the Yale method of computation, to call the entering class at Cambridge over...
...essays must be written upon letter paper, of the quarto size, with a margin of not less than one inch at the top and bottom, and on each side. The sheets on which the essays are written must be securely stitched together...
...early to know precisely the size of our freshman class, still we may venture to say that it will have to be abnormally large to compare with the size of the freshman classes at Yale and Cornell, which number respectively three hundred and four and three hundred and fifty-one students. Yet why is this so? The only satisfactory solution of the problem lies in the fact that here all branches of athletics seem to be at their lowest ebb, while at the two colleges previously cited the case is reversed. Exeter Academy, Harvard's oldest and hitherto most reliable...