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...page in the report is devoted to the increase in numbers in the College, especially to the number of unclassified students from other colleges, "why they go to another college first . . . we do not know and we are trying to discover." Some use that method hoping to avoid the entrance examinations, thereby losing more than they gain. For the student who has not lived in the Freshman dormitories is greatly handicapped in the loss of the associations and intimacies which are an integral part of the life of the first-year man. The unclassified student is most welcome at Harvard...
...Williams and Kruttschnitt of Washington and Lee. On the whole, however, college men form a very small percentage of the 20,000 who are classified as general or divisional railroad officers. The purposes of this article are (1) to point out the reasons which influence the college man to avoid the railroads; (2) to show that the educated man is now needed more than ever before in railroad service; and (3) to call attention to changed conditions which may make the railroads recognize the value of college graduates and offer inducements which will attract them...
...alcoholic content of Hurley no doubt did exceed the legal percentage of one-half of one, and the condition there seems to have resembled that in the more or less mythical Utopia where the bootleggers must perforce wear badges to avoid selling to each other. Word had been passed out by the liquor dealers of the Wiseonsin hamlet that here was "one place in God's country" that was a "man's town for real men," and intimated in no uncertain terms that the first prohibition agent to make his presence known would find the vicinity unhealthy...
Every precaution has been made to make the schedule next fall one which will lead up gradually to the Harvard and Princeton games, and to avoid the large hospital list which was caused by the hard games of last season...
...Student Council held last night, it was decided to put a "Date Book" at the desk at the Union in which it is strongly urged that all organizations register meetings and other events which might conflict with any other activities. It is hoped by this method to avoid such conflicts as occurred last year between the "East vs. West" Debate, the Senior Picnic and the Freshman Musical Clubs on May 21. Although registration is not compulsory, it is hoped that all organizations will realize that it is to their benefit to register their events, and, in case of conflict, preference...