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There are 1100 students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 56.9 percent. being from Massachusetts...
...preliminary commencement appointments to the senior class of Williams College were made recently. 82 1-2 percent was necessary for the appointments...
...Harvard there are nineteen seniors on the college papers; of these one has an oration; eight have dissertations; two have disquisitions; and eight have no appointments. Altogether forty-eight percent. of the Harvard editors have appointments...
...preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent. to his manly self-respect and ability to use his common sense. The game is an education itself for it gives a man "certain necessary qualities that do not come from much reading of books." "Active thinking, self-reliance, power to carry out what is attempted, and ability to decide...
...interesting, in this connection, to note the advance in her libraries which Harvard has made over the other colleges. In none of them are the libraries so well equipped or so generally used as at Harvard. The statistics at Yale show that the percent of students using the library is much below that of Harvard; and that of the books which are used, by far the greatest portion are works of fiction. Such facts would seem to indicate that the method of conducting the courses at Harvard is largely to account for the increased use of general literature. This method...