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...factor. The work has been divided into several departments, each having a chairman. The entertainment troupes, clothing collection, and the text-book loan library departments have made marked progress. The boys' club department has been further divided into volunteer probate work, children's home libraries, associated charities, teaching in various missions, and directing boys' clubs in settlement houses. These branches are under the supervision of the chairman of boys' club work, P. W. Carter...
...June number of the Graduates' Magazine, which has just appeared, contains an usually comprehensive summary of University activities. The place of honor is given to an interesting comparison of the physical qualifications of various classes of students, under the title of "The Physique of Scholars, Students, and the Average Student," by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent. Dr. Sargent holds that an excessive attention to athletics is an evil not nearly so serious as over-attention to studies on the part of the high-stand men. From statistics of physical examinations he shows that the standard of physique of the athlete...
Athletics, both theoretical and applied, has occupied so much attention this spring that several articles on its various forms are naturally included for the information of the graduates. A quotation from President Elliot's annual report opens the discussion, which is carried on at length by Professor R. B. Merriman '96 in the University notes. A special article by A. W. Hinkel '08, entitled "An Undergraduate on Curtailing Athletics," and the "Student Life" department present the popular view of the matter. The records of current athletic events which the Graduates Magazine supplies, are more for reference than for news value...
This year 2,883 ballots were received as against 3,706 forwarded to the Alumni Office last year. Of these, 79 ballots were thrown out for various reasons; 68 because unsigned, eight because more than five candidates had been voted for, and three because, although signed, no cross had been made on the ballot. Last year 250 ballots were thrown out for the same reasons...
...Gustavus Hay, of Jamaica Plain, has given to the Library, in fulfillment of the request of her husband, the late Gustavus Hay, of the Class of 1850, M.D. 1857, a number of mathematical books collected by him. These form a remarkably well-chosen collection of valuable standard works on various branches of mathematics. Many of these works, which are already in the main Library, will be welcome additions to the library of the Department of Mathematics...