Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Papers in many 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...
...examinations were this year applied to the Freshmen entering Columbia, and the men who were accepted on this plan have in almost every case proved their ability to handle the work. All men who took the tests were divided into three groups, and of the first group only two have failed to rank near the top of their class. It is admittedly impossible to judge finally as to the value of the tests with only one year's trial but Dr. Jones is confident of their ultimate value...
...long time since Greek was dropped as an entrance requirement, and since Latin was compulsory for Freshmen here. Harvard was the first college to adopt, the "Comprehensive Plan" for entrance, and has been a leader in the system of concentration, distribution and general examinations. The recent progressive steps taken by other universities have only in rare instances gone beyond what Harvard has already done. Perhaps the reason that Harvard has remained comparatively unchanged this year is that she was prepared to meet modern conditions before they...
Today all the 1923 basketball men move to the new hall. After the Christmas vacation the department hopes to move all the Freshmen to the new building except those who are engaged in special exercises like wrestling, fencing and boxing, because, although the main basketball hall is opened today, the entire building will not be completed until the beginning of January. The present plan provides that men living in the Freshmen dormitories will dress in their own rooms, lockers being provided only for men who live out of town or elsewhere in Cambridge...
...hockey squads will resume practice on the Charlesbank rinks under the direction of Coach Claflin. Both squads have reached such a size that the management expects a hundred and fifty men out for the two teams this afternoon. Of this number about ninety are University candidates and sixty are Freshmen. As this is the first work-out of the year for 1923, they will be given general practice in position skating to get back into form...