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...effort is to be made to compile the data from this investigation until over 90 per cent of the class have been heard from, since only then will the results have significance. The offending Seniors are therefore urged to return their questionnaires at the earliest opportunity. Last year 92 percent of the questionnaires were returned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only 70 Per Cent of Senior Class Has Responded to Vocational Questionnaire of the Placement Bureau Sent Out in November | 12/16/1930 | See Source »

...getting muscle-bound by climbing four flights of stairs to the attic rooms on the fifth floors. But what interests me more is the fact that the price rates for rooms in the Freshman dormitories now being converted into Houses are raised from twenty-five to over one hundred percent above the rates which were charged us as Freshmen. The rates have been raised in some cases $180 higher for double suites and $120 for single rooms. Pray tell, is it a working theory that the upper-classmen, have heavier wallets than have the new-comers to this university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Boycott | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...listed in the book is concerned, the University ranks third, a recent report compiled by two Lafayette college professors shows. Of 28,815 persons named in "Who's Who", 16,433 were college graduates, and of these Harvard has 1,374, Yale 937 and Princeton 480. However, only 6.6 percent of the total number are Harvard men, while Amherst lists 7.4 percent and Hampden-Sidney 7.45 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE HEADS ALL OTHERS IN MEMBERS IN "WHO'S WHO" | 11/14/1930 | See Source »

...case last year, a larger percent of men entering came from private schools and tutors than from the public schools. A larger percent were refused admission from the public schools than the private institutions. On the other hand over 92 percent of those admitted under the highest seventh plan came from public school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Average Age of Applicants for Admission to Harvard College Is Lower--Larger Percent of Entrants From Private Schools | 11/5/1930 | See Source »

...succeed in developing the technique of watching football, it is not too much-to say that it will increase your capacity for enjoyment about fifty percent, (more or less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

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