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WITH REFERENCE TO STATEMENT ON TRANSIENTS IN TIME FEBRUARY SIXTH, ESTIMATE OF RAILROADS POLICE AND SOCIAL AGENTS WHO PROVIDE SHELTER FOR TRANSIENTS IS THAT FROM TWENTY TO TWENTY FIVE PERCENT ARE MINORS. THIS IS ESTIMATE I GAVE AT HEARING AND NOT EIGHTY PERCENT AS GIVEN BY TIME...
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Classical studies are dying out. While the college, in the last 23 years, has increased in numbers from 2,217 to, 390, the number of students in classical courses has decreased from 430 to 390 and their percentage in the college from 19.3 percent to 11.1 percent. Further, since these sadistic concerning classical students are obtained by adding the numbers of undergraduates registered in the courses, and since many students, undoubtedly, take several classical subjects in one year, the figures given above must be decreased at least one-third to obtain the approximate number of men actually taking such courses...
...present only five percent of the residents of the Houses, with the exception of Lowell, are graduates. Such of these men who have been resident in the House in their undergraduate days provide a spirit of continuity to the House Plan. They aid in incorporating the best of the House ideals into the new members, and lend an air of maturity, perhaps intellectuality, to House functions. The graduate's outlook, backed by college experience here or abroad, is bound to be interesting to the undergraduate. Contacts between graduate and undergraduate are a palliative for the frequent failure of the tutors...
...clear that to retrench some 16 percent in the budget and to continue to operate the Library could only be done by a major curtailment either in personnel or in service rendered to the University...