Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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RECORD OF HUGHES GRADU TE X - UGHES is proud of the record of her Alumni. Since june, 1919, k there have been 4,062 graduates from the school. The number ' going on to institutions of higher learning has varied from a X minimum of 54 per cent, to a maximum of 72 per cent. The peak ' 3 X was reached in 1924 which corresponds to the maximum enroll- ment in colleges according to the latest statistics. College attend- ance from 1924 to 1929 decreased 4 per cent. If sixty per cent is taken as a mean average between fifty-four per cent and seventy-two per cent, this would give 2,436 graduates from Hughes who entered some institution of higher learning the year following their graduation and takes no account whatsoever of the very con- siderable number of graduates who had to work and earn ways and means before entering college. Personally I know that this number is very considerable, and it is not an extravagant estimate to say that 2,700 graduates of Hughes since 1919 have gone on with their education. It is much more difficult to keep track ofthe honors won by these graduates, but we have the names of seventy-two graduates who have been granted the Phi Beta Kappa key and ofthe institutions which have granted them. The list includes colleges from coast to coast, Harvard, Yale, Smith, Wellesley, Princeton, Cornell, University of Michigan, Swarthmore, Miami, Oberlin, Kenyon, Uni- versity of California, and the University of Cincinnati. This honor is bestowed only by Colleges of Liberal Arts, and as the proportion of students entering scientific colleges in contrast to liberal arts is 3 to 1, it can readily be deduced that the group elected to scientific honor societies is very much greater, but the organization of Phi Beta Kappa has so much more publicity that their members are more easily traced. We have no adequate check-up on our pupils who win scientific honors. Two of the research men working on the Vitamin D at the University of Cincinnati are Hughes men and Palmer Craig, the radio wizard, is also a Hughes graduate. Bryn Mawr for the last two years has chosen a Hughes girl for the student group of third-year college women to do a year's work in French universities and return to American colleges for their fourth year's work. Wellesley is sending a Hughes graduate next year. As you are well aware, several eastern college alumnal associations have local or regional scholarships in order to encourage Cincinnati students of ability to go to eastern institutions. The colleges are Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Swarthmore, and Yale. Since 1920, twenty-five of these scholarships have been awarded to Hughes graduates. just a further item. Last year twelve Hughes graduates were in some one of Harvard's Graduate Schools and ten ofthe twelve had been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key. In this ten, Swarthmore, Cornell, University of Cincinnati, Prince- ton, Yale, and Harvard were represented. C. M. MERRY 9.8

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