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Parades of such proportions as the one tonight present certain dangers as well as desirable features. There will be in the neighborhood of 2000 men in line, and a long circuit has been mapped out to march over. No one claimed for a minute that the good done the Republican party by the parade four years ago was one-tenth as great as the harm suffered by Harvard College. Even the remote possibility of the recurrence of such an episode in which college men disgraced themselves in the public eye has prompted the Student Council to supervise the arrangements made...
...write rough drafts of your themes or theses? Think of the time you would save if you knew how to write these rough drafts in one-third to one-tenth of the time...
...past few years the meeting for the election of officers has represented the club very inadequatly been cast by about one-tenth of the total membership. The unsatisfactory and even dangerous nature of such a state of affairs needs only to be pointed out. Tonight, an amendment to the constitution will be proposed, for the purpose of postponing the elections till some days after the nominations are made at the annual meeting, and of taking the vote by printed ballots during a whole...
...Gymnasium. These points are reckoned as follows: The number of kilos. lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings. Where the strength test falls below the desired standard, the capacity of the lungs...
...suffrage.- (a) In Wichita, Kansas, out of thirty-five women qualified to vote, two hundred voted in 1887: Nation, Vol. 44, p. 362.- (b) In Massachusetts in 1886, only one woman in every two hundred and fifty four could be induced to go to the polls to exercise the school suffrage: Bib. Sac. Vol. 50, p. 331.- (c) When woman suffrage was brought before the people in 1894, only one-tenth of the women of Massachusetts expressed their wish to vote...