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Fully fifty percent of the men in the S. A. T. C. were college men. We have yet to meet a member of any Harvard S. A. T. C. company who would say that college men were in the minority in his company. Regarding older men evading active duty, it might be stated that there were a certain number of limited service--Group C--men enrolled in this organization because they were not eligible for any other branch of service. Among this number were several members of former Harvard athletic teams -- presumably men of college calibre...
...meeting of the Yale Corporation held yesterday, it was decided to raise the salaries of all instructors and assistant professors of the university. The former will receive a 25 percent, and the latter a $500 increase...
Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
According to the World Almanac, out of the 396,619 living college alumni of this country approximately 17 percent were in the service. On the other hand, of the living alumni and undergraduates of the University, Yale and Princeton, 36, 38, and 45 percent respectively were in the Army, Navy and auxiliary forces. Princeton's leadership is not great, when the large numbers of foreign students and men over military age in the graduate schools of the University, and to a lesser degree Yale, are taken into consideration. The University and Princeton each had approximately 53 per cent of their...
...primary suture' system of surgery; and to make it effective it was necessary to carry on even up at the front lines. This new system was not begun until last June; by it a wounded man is well in three weeks, instead of six months, and almost ninety percent of the operations are successful...