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Coincident with the conferences yesterday of Mr. Paul S. Reed '15 on the oil fields industries under the auspices of the Committee on Vocations comes the announcement that of the questionnaires sent to Seniors 84 percent have already been returned...
...forth, in brief, this plan: that the Freshman class be kept under 850 in number by preventing the repeated enrolment of dropped students without a second examination, by discouraging transfer students from other colleges, and, above all, by discontinuing fall entrance examinations, which are responsible, they maintained, for 75 percent of the Freshmen who go on probation. Further, they advocated an additional general examination designed to test the candidate's ability, potentiality, and breadth of culture instead of his acquisitive power...
Approximately 70 percent of the undergraduates have responded to the appeal of higher education in Europe, giving an average of more than two dollars a man. In the Freshman class subscriptions have been much the heaviest, the total of the contributions being almost...
Increasing experience with physical examinations has given a better interpretation of certain abnormalities which have heretofore caused a great deal of alarm. A large percentage of Freshmen have systolic heart murmurs. This can be demonstrated in as high as 70 percent of the present class...
...that the Harvard undergraduate is generally healthy is found in the tabulations of absences from college work due to illness. During the academic year 1922-23, on an average, each undergraduate lost six days on account of illness during the eight months of the college term. The average daily percent of absenteeism, due to illness, was 2.6 percent. The figures were higher in 1922-23. This increase was due to the prevalence of so-called "grippe" within the college community and also within the community at large during the months of January, February, and March. The absenteeism on account...