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...considered the poor showing of the class of 1927, since $100 more was realized by last year's Senior class, but he believes that the class of 1924 will be greatly enriched as a result of the donation of 1,910,000 German marks. According to the 1924 financial statistician, there is an excellent chance of the mark "coming back" before the Twenty-fifth Anniversary, and the marks will be put in a strong box until that time...
...Scatch a statistician and you find an alarmist. Almost everyone who makes a practise of collecting tables and figures, and argues therefrom, has his own per theory of what will happen to this unfortunate republic in another twenty years if something or other is not done at once, or if it keeps on increasing at its present rate...
Tyrus R. Cobb, Manager of the Detroit American League baseball team: "Figures compiled by a baseball statistician show that I, during my lifetime in the American League, have played in 2,449 games and have had a batting average of .370. There followed games and batting averages of other leading players now in the American League: Sisler, St. Louis 1047 .361 Speaker, Cleveland 2182 .348 Ruth, New York 945 .347 Collins, Chicago 2310 .331 Heilman, Detroit...
...Geer, Director of Physical Education at the University, has accepted an invitation from Mr. L. I. Dublin head statistician of the Metropolitian Life Insurance Company, to cooperate with him in compiling detailed statistics on the longevity of college athletes...
When some eminent statistician first compiled the figures which showed that scholastic success was a continuous process from school and college to professional school and life, he thought, perhaps, that he had solved his problem. No longer would it be necessary for anxious parents and eminent educators to exhort the youth of the land to earnest study. The figures were plain to behold. The stern portals of Phi Beta Kappa would surely now be thronged by a host of eager applicants...