Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teeth. Furthermore, only rarely did we find a Freshman who had sufficiently gross uncorrected defects of the eye so that he needed the immediate attention of the oculist. In 1914 we found that 41 per cent of the Freshmen wore glasses, either constantly, for distance, or for near work. This fall we found that 37.2 per cent of the Freshmen wore glasses. In other words, the enlightened part of the public who send their boys to Harvard College may be considered as appreciating fully the dangers of ocular defects and this appreciation has extended at least as far back...
...applied to the Freshmen entering Columbia, and the men who were accepted on this plan have in almost every case proved their ability to handle the work. All men who took the tests were divided into three groups, and of the first group only two have failed to rank near the top of their class. It is admittedly impossible to judge finally as to the value of the tests with only one year's trial but Dr. Jones is confident of their ultimate value...
...meeting of the Massachusetts Marine Corps Association will be hold in the John A. Andrew's Post G. A. R. Hall near the Dover street Elevated Station at 8 o'clock on Thursday. All ex-Marines are cordially invited to attend. The program for the evening includes a smoker and music, which has been arranged by the Executive Council...
Garden Street, near Washington...
...connection with physical and military training. One of these camps for the students of the Northwest and for men in the East who want to know a bit of what is still the old West, will possibly be situated on the site of Colonel Roosevelt's Chimney Butte Ranch, near Me- dora, North Dakota. There will be others, presumably, including one in Colonel Roosevelt's own home state...