Word: school
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public school scholars...
...chief deduction, however, is that the private schools offer superior training for a definite goal, they coach the boys for the "exams" upon which depend their entrance to the college of their choice, while the public schools train their students for general efficiency in life. The report is a splendid tribute to the work of the public schools. But if the average public school has any tendency to over-coach its boys, there are a lot of private schools in this country where the very highest standards of general training, discipline and democracy are maintained, and their graduates...
...held as usual in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock. On Sunday, December 28, the Reverend Maxwell Savage, D. D., Minister of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, will conduct the services, and on Sunday, January 4, Dean Charles Reynolds Brown, D. D., head of the Yale School of Religion, will be the preacher...
...Christmas recess for students registered in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in Harvard College, or in the Engineering School, for the current academic year, will begin on Sunday, December 21, 1919, and end on Sunday, January...
...undergraduates in the Engineering School are required to register on the same days and hours at 223 Pierce Hall...