Word: ten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Checker Club has recently accepted a challenge from the Brown Checker Club to hold a dual match at Providence sometime during April. Each team will be composed of ten men, ranked according to their ability, who will play the corresponding men on the opposing team. The Harvard team will not be chosen until just before the match, and this will give every man in the club a chance to win a place. The ten best men as they are ranked at present are: Guggenheimer, Mills, Merritt, Field Clerck, Knot, Crawley, Boynton, Todd, Haigh. Each man has the right to challenge...
...Paul's Society this year continues its work in about the same way that it has been conducted for several years. The work at the boys' club at Roxbury, now in its third year, is continued by about ten men as heretofore. Almost every member of the society teaches a Sunday School class in some church...
...Ten Harvard men are assisting in industrial and evangelistic work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. Fifteen men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill where from 75 to 100 Chinamen attend regularly. These men come at first simply to learn the English language, but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back again for the religious teaching of the school. Not a few of these Chinamen have become Christians, and some have gone back...
...House, of ten Harvard men who were members of the fifty-sixth Congress, seven have been returned, but no other Harvard men have been elected. The list now stands as follows: From Illinois-Henry S. Boutell '76. George E. Foss '85, and Vespasian Warner L. S. '68; from Massachusetts - William H. Moody '76 and Henry F. Naphen L. S. '78; from New York - Lucius N. Littauer '78; from Rhode Island - Melvile Bull...
From recent investigations carried on by the National Board of Education, it bas been found that one out of every forty college graduates now living has attained recognized distinction of some sort in the country; and that one in every ten thousand, who have not received the benefit of higher education, has attained similar success. The classification of 15,138 conspicuous Americans whose names appear in Appleton's Encyclopaedia of American Biography shows the following result: College Graduates. From Academies. Non College Percentage of College Men. Scientists, 341 25 164 64.30 Educators, 625 42 345 61.76 Clergymen...