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Figures recently complied at Princeton form an interesting comparison. They were taken from the graduates of 15 classes and are as follows: business 1,519, law 674, engineering 380, medicine 288, ministry 281, teaching 260, government 120, journalism 97, farming...
...ancient elevens, and prehistoric nines, together with well-earned footballs and baseballs, make the Trophy Room of the Union a place worth lingering in, but at second thought it is evident that this room does not give us all that is showed. The collection is poverty-stricken in comparison with the richness of the material which must have been accumulated somewhere in all these years...
...series of practice meets was held with the Waltham Swimming Club, Andover Academy, and the Brookline Gymnasium Swimming Team. The Freshmen held a meet with the Brookline High School, and additional relay races were held with the Waltham relay team. In comparison with other colleges, only a few meets were held, and of these the team won all save that with Andover. The times made in these meets proved conclusively that the material was above the average...
...like summary of all marks made at mid-years by the Freshmen who entered under the old plan. Men who have been dropped from other classes into the Freshman class are not included, so the tendency toward general superiority of the "new plan" men shown by this final comparison is very convincing...
...awaken to the influence of the word "social". "If one may speak in familiar terms in this the family circle of our Alma Mater, I would say that not the least interesting thing about this work, to my mind, is the revelation of the growth of the author. A comparison of this with his earlier works show a tremendous progress towards what I should call the modern and public as distinct from the old and individualistic point of view. Twenty-five years ago Professor Taussig would probably have accepted, with but slight modification, the view of the laissezfaire school that...