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Papers in many places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of the public school graduates won their degrees cum laude, against 10.3 per cent. of the men from private schools; that 11.8 per cent, of the public school graduates earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public...
...chief deduction, however, is that the private schools offer superior training for a definite goal, they coach the boys for the "exams" upon which depend their entrance to the college of their choice, while the public schools train their students for general efficiency in life. The report is a splendid tribute to the work of the public schools. But if the average public school has any tendency to over-coach its boys, there are a lot of private schools in this country where the very highest standards of general training, discipline and democracy are maintained, and their graduates...
...played with outside teams either in squash or squash racquets the teams will be made up of the leading men in the respective rank lists. At the end of the year it is proposed to award prizes to the three leading men in each list, and to engrave upon a shield in the club room the names of the champions in each branch, with the result that every season there will be a competition lasting a year to determine the champion...
...words, the enlightened part of the public who send their boys to Harvard College may be considered as appreciating fully the dangers of ocular defects and this appreciation has extended at least as far back as 1914. In 1914, 43.5 per cent of the Freshmen had had some operation upon their nose or throat. In 1919, 43.6 per cent of the Freshmen had had their tonsils removed, and a certain further per cent, rather trifling, had only had an operation upon the nose and throat. It is certainly striking that such a large proportion of these young...
...arriving at this rating it was attempted to adopt the same mental attitude as one might adopt the same mental attitude as one might adopt in deciding upon college grades for academic work. A and B are the types whose bodily mechanics are commendable, while C and D are less satisfactory. The process points which we noted are as follows: Group A; Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head straight above chest, hips and feet. 2. Chest up and forward. 3. Abdomen in or flat. 4. Back usual curves not exaggerated. Group B; Fairly Good Mechanical...