Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the record of a certain hospital patient comes to the School, all the information about him, such as age, number of teeth, etc., numbering perhaps 500, facts, is put onto these cards by means of a code, a punch, for example, in row five column 37 meaning that the person in question is a convalescent...
Then, when a doctor wants to find out information which might help to locate the cause of a disease, he takes a certain number of the cards and runs them through the machine, arranging the apparatus to separate out the facts that-he desires...
...light of definite advantages. The only disadvantages which could be urged are the practical ones; and these Mr. Harkness has largely set aside by his generous promise of more funds when they are needed. The process of selection will be a difficult one, and will involve a certain number of mistakes. There is the danger on the one hand of uncongeniality; on the other of too great accord and insufficiently diversified interests. To be successful, the Houses must function as something considerably more than mere dormitories or common eating halls...
Tastes change so rapidly that "hits" come and go within a week. College buyers are always ahead of the market, and prove fickle in the extreme. Eccentricity makes a forecast of musical sales impossible, as frequently the students fall to accept songs rated as certain favorites. Sometimes they give vogue to a record by their patronage...
Perhaps the chief objection which has been raised against the Dance, from certain quarters at least, is in regard to social considerations. It is said that the constituency of the Junior Prom is not representative of the Harvard undergraduate body. I beg to take issue with this statement. Out of necessity I attended the Dance last year, and am convinced that the proportion of various social groups at the function is in general the same as that between the same groups in the greater body of the College. Unfortunately, however, with the reduced numbers, the total of the undergraduates...