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...problem is not even as simple as club versus non-club. There is the hierarchy of established clubs to be considered. Leaving the feeding problem aside, it is a question whether smaller, not larger, sections might not offer a solution. If 50 percent instead of 25 percent were left out of clubs the clubs would not be such an integral part of Princeton life. The unclubbable element effectually stops a solution in the other direction...
...found that eight of the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence were alumni of the College, that General Artemas Ward, class of 1748, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army, and that 245 of 1361 living graduates saw active war service. Fifteen percent of the graduate body at this time were known as loyalists or "Tories" with another group of 250 recognized as of patriot sympathies although unqualified for military duty...
...must this new test be? Are two weeks excavation at this time as important as fair examinations to 1500 students who have only this single opportunity to show what they know, par-percent of whom will return next year? ticularly to those 700 first year men, 40 per cent of whom will return next year? Robert F. Spindell...
...reading knowledge of another one and a beginner's knowledge of another language. The survey of a representative section of the Senior class printed in this morning's CRIMSON shows that a large number of students get through Harvard without fully measuring up to this standard. About ten percent of the men interviewed had but a slight knowledge of any language; many more knew one but had forgotten their slight acquaintance with the other...
...cane for general planting on the more fertile lands, Hrvd No. 12.029 is, without doubt one of the very best varsities ever produced, regarding both field tonnage and percentage of sucrose in the juice. The average yield of cane per caballeria is at least 15 percent greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal...