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...number entering last fall. Due partly to the added facilities at the Business School plant, and partly to the increased number of college graduates who will be admitted as first year students next fall the total enrollment at the present time for next year's class is 16 percent higher than it was a year ago at this time...
...circumstance that greted its predecessor, has given in May the dignity of an accepted innovation to what was in January an educational experiment. But the Reading Period has not yet completed its own justification as a fixture in the Harvard curriculum. The increase in honor grades of two percent, the increase of one percent in satisfactory grades, and the decrese of three percent in grades below the level of C would offer insufficient space for the seal of official approval, even if grades were to be considered the ultimate test of intellectual accomplishment. Of more significance was the increased demand...
...total number of 33 students competed for the prizes this year, an increase of about 50 percent over the number which presented itself last year. The examination was given in two parts, the first of which required a knowledge of a variety of specific facts and the second ability to write an essay on some subject chosen from a wide field...
...appears that the Columbia Law Faculty has been studying this problem since 1921 and believes that it has discovered a means of detecting in advance men who are incapable of complying with required standards. Experiment by means of a "capacity test" has consistently revealed that over ninety percent of the men who scored below a certain grade did poor work in law school. Consequently it is felt that the "capacity test" is a reliable means of presaging a man's capability for law school work and-it will go into effect at Columbia next fall...
...competition, open to Juniors, for the undergraduate managership of the Harvard football programs, has just been announced by W. W. Daly '14, secretary of student employment. Five Juniors will be chosen to compete from May 1 to September 1, and the winner of this competition will receive 26 percent of his advertising profits, and a trip to Europe during the summer of 1929. Men should apply to Mr. Daly in University Hall today and tomorrow...