Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This table of figures, with the exception of the items for tuition, board, and room rent, however, came from an advertising card which was issued by the business manager of the Register. Having been erroneous in their statement of the source of such "startling information", the papers were also erroneous in failing to state the basis on which those figures were given...
However, supposing such figures have been estimated by Harvard men and scattered broadcast over Boston, do their totals show sufficient facts for the statement that "Harvard men are big spenders for luxuries," and do they reveal "details that are startling in their suggestiveness"? Let us analyze a few of these details...
...might be supposed, the sport calling out the greatest number of men is football, 197 men in all being engaged in that form of athletics. Rowing is second with 153. Tennis is probably third, although no positive statement can be made in this connection...
...training school for business: that culture and the arts are sadly neglected: that the student devotes all his time to Economics and Science. Granting that in the main this accusation is true (though by no means admitting the implied evils of such a situation), we take issue with the statement that Literature and Fine Arts no longer have their place within the University. That these interests are still alive among certain groups of undergraduates is well shown, not alone by lists of courses, but also by many student organizations, and even more by the careers of college men after they...
...York Tribune concurs in the latter statement...