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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is shown by comparing the absences from college duties during the weeks of no classes and the rest of the year. During the January Reading Period of last year students sick days totalled only 66 percent of the average for the other months of the college year. In the May respite, the percentage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: READING PERIOD HEALTHIER THAN REST OF COLLEGE YEAR | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

...return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWICE BLEST | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

...result of the Make-up Examinations, 23 men have received Dean's List standing. Together with the number which received B averages at Mid-years this makes a total of 567 men or 17.5 percent of the undergraduates, that have attained Dean's List ranking. This is a slight decrease when compared with 17.6 percent of the students making Dean's List grades last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 23 MEN ADDED TO DEAN'S LIST BY MAKEUP EXAMS | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

With these results the ratio of men making the Dean's List in the different classes remains almost the same as at Mid-years. At that time, 24.9 percent of the Senior Class received this honor, together with 18.4 percent of the Juniors, 13.2 percent of the Sophomores, and 13.9 percent of the Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 23 MEN ADDED TO DEAN'S LIST BY MAKEUP EXAMS | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

With the quota for the first year class set at 600 students, applications for entrance to the Harvard School of Business Administration have already reached a total of 570 with more coming in continually. The number of applications received before May 1 this year exceeds by over 60 percent the figure for the corresponding period last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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