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Michigan has seventeen graduates in Congress, the largest number representing any institution of learning in the country. Harvard has sixteen and Yale eleven...
There were sixteen men in the 100 yd. dash, which was run in four heats and a final. In the first heat were: G. F. Brown '92. C. L. Hodgkins M. S., S. M. Merrill '94; W. L. Thompson '93. Winner first heat S. M. Merrill (4 yds.); time 11 sec. Second, Hodgkins (5 yds.) In the second heat were: C. S. Hickman L. S.; J. S. Cook '92; H. F. Hollis '92; O. K. Hawes Cook (scratch) won; time 10 4-5 sec. Hawes (scratch) second. Third heat: A Latham '92. C. E. Bacon '95, E. B. Hill...
...remain in office there and appoint police unless he was subservient to the liquor dealers. All saloon keepers have to give bonds that they will not break the stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever...
...represented. Of the class which graduated from the college last year about 50 men have entered the school. Brown has contributed seven graduates and Bowdoin eight. What is most gratifying of all is the number of men who come to the Law School from Yale. This year there are sixteen, of whom one graduated from the Yale Law School and took a degree in some other college. This ever increasing number of acquisitions from Yale is doing a great deal towards bringing about a closer intimacy between the two colleges...
...things," a system which has so many advantages over the American in certain respects, that it behooves progressive students of this country to ascertain the why and wherefore. Mr. Fowler states authoritatively that at the time he entered Harvard College the average age of his German classmates was under sixteen, while that of his class at Harvard was about eighteen and four months; and further that German boys of almost any given age are further advanced in the course of education than their American contemporaries,- for which deficiency the author suggests a possible remedy...