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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...from the class of 1912, became a regular member of the Council. The Phi Beta Kappa representatives were elected yesterday as follows: C. S. Collier '11, of Kinderhook, N. Y.; F. M. Eliot '11, of Boston; W. C. Greene '11, of Baltimore, Md. The above list contains the whole number of men in the Council except the First Marshal of the Senior class, and the president and three members from the Freshman class. The latter will not be chosen until next term...
Professor Lowell is best known for his researches concerning the planet Mars, for which he was awarded the Janssen medal by the French Astronomical Society in 1904. He has lived for a number of years in Japan, and has undertaken several expeditions for astronomical investigations. He is a non-resident professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and belongs to many scientific societies...
...another column is published this morning a list of first and second group scholars, numbering in all 178, of whom seven prepared for college at schools in the above list. If it is assumed that each of the institutions enumerated sends ten men a year to Harvard, then their graduates number but one scholar to every 30 men. This is a meagre proportion of high-rank students, when it is considered that about one-tenth of all the upperclassmen are annually awarded scholarships...
...that is in effect today was enacted, and 700 national banks were organized. The state institutions were at first somewhat reticent about changing their charters, fearing inconsistency on the part of the federal government, or hostile legislation by Congress, but their hesitation was soon overcome. Since that time the number of national banks has multiplied rapidly, but the circulation, though limited only by their capital, has increased very slowly in proportion...
...would be well if the current number of the Graduates' Magazine were read by every undergraduate. It is of course desirable that the graduates should be among the first to know of the changes in opinion which are being disclosed, so that they, being convinced, may tell their juniors that they wish that things had been presented to them in this light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation...