Word: circulars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...circular has been issued showing the schools and colleges from which young men actually entered Harvard college from 1879 to 1888 inclusive, with the number that entered each year from each institution. It shows that students come to Harvard from all parts of the United States from the preparatory schools of England and even Germany...
...gain a knowledge of its churches, temples, paintings and antiquities. He would be obliged to confine himself to one subject-namely, the topography of Rome. He would walk with his listeners from one place of interest to another, starting at the northern portion of the city, and going a circular path towards the east, showing them the views he had collected. Rome, he said, had changed much in the last twenty-five years, and now there is a new and flourishing city built in among the relics of Ancient Rome...
...thirty-four men who made no answer to the enquiries of the committee on athletics last spring received an average mark for the year 1887-88. calculated at 64.1 per cent. Those who set themselves down in the circular as taking no exercise, 14 in number, had an average of 67.8 per cent.; and the forty-four men who had attended no intercollegiate contests in Cambridge had a mark of 74.9 per cent. The records from which these marks were computed were incomplete, but the averages are probably almost correct for the year...
...take no interest in athletics make a showing worse than that of the freshmen. Those who did not reply to the circular of the committee have an average excess of 20 absences more than their class; those who take no exercise, 16 more; those who attended no intercollegiate games at Cambridge, 15 less...
Already over nine hundred answers have been received to the circular sent out by the CRIMSON, scarcely one replying in the negative...