Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been the custom in the past to choose 22 men from the Senior Class and 8 Juniors. This year, however, the number of Seniors elected will probably be less than usual because of the lower average of scholarship...
...Lower Reading Room in Widener Library will be opened as soon as the request is received from the division of History, Government, and Economics. For the first time since last spring the special libraries of the more advanced courses will be opened to the student body...
...care of at the Still man Infirmary. Forty-six of these were complicated by pneumonia. Five died, making the death rate two and one-half per cent, of all the influenza cases and eleven per cent, of the forty-six which were complicated by pneumonia. This is a much lower death rate than has been reported for influenza and pneumonia occurring during the same period at other institutions. The mortality among the influenza-pneumonia cases in some hospitals has been over fifty per cent and many have reported over thirty per cent so that Harvard has been very fortunate...
...Swiss method of training all able-bodied young men for the work of a soldier and keeping them in reserve but always ready for immediate mobilization interferes very little with the education of the people or with their industries and earning power. The cost of this system is also lower than that of any other European system, or of the present American system. There are two provisions in the Swiss military constitution which should be copied especially. by the American Commonwealth; first, the prescription of universal physical training in all schools on a program laid down by the national government...
...then up to the lower classes to make Class Day a success. From the Juniors fifty ushers are needed for duty in the Yard, from the Sophomores and Freshmen must come the crowd to fill the Sever stands. It is not much that the Seniors, are asking of us and it is the least we can do to make their departure from College as pleasant as possible. Many of us many never have a chance to see their own class graduate, some of us will never graduate at all, but everyone should make use of the opportunity to see this...