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Several interesting observations on the practical intelligence of the Harvard man have been brought to life by the 1935 Album Committee's efforts to get information on the Senior Class. For instance, of the 671 envelopes mailed from the local postal district, 392 had three-cent stamps on them, when two cents would have been sufficient.
One student whose efficiency was more marked, but still on the minus side, sent his life blank with a 2 1/2 cent stamp. Three wily Seniors, however, either by design or through that absentmindedness common to the scholar, sent their statistics unstamped. Seven men, intending to be doctors, spelled their future profession's name "medecine." One Phillips Exeter alumnus, reported having prepared at "Philipps Exeter."
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