Word: confirming
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...general the replies, though in many ways unsatisfactory, tend to confirm the wisdom of electives in Harvard College. The number of men who favor certain prescribed studies is large, but the courses prescribed are in most cases in English; History, Government and Economics, or Science and some modern language. Classics and mathematics are mentioned by few, showing that the lack of an old fashioned training in these subjects is not felt seriously by men of some experience, commercial or professional. One suggestion is so generally made as to command special attention: the student should be more carefully guided...
...serviceable in the actual activities of modern society. These tables, as the Dean points out, do not furnish material for an exhaustive study of the elective system in Harvard College; but they support the belief that as a body the students use the system with reasonable intelligence. They confirm the results of previous inquiries in several important respects;--thus, they prove that under a wide elective system there will be no extreme specialization, and there will be fair amount of judicious choice of correlated subjects. The general conclusion is that a boy of eighteen who has had a good training...
...census should be accepted, not withstanding the fact that they have frequently been unfavorably criticised. From calculations based upon them it may be concluded that the probable population by the next census will be seventy-five and a half millions. A result rising far above this will tend to confirm the doubts now entertained by many regarding the last or eleventh census...
...transferred to the eastern part of the temple area, where the excavations which had been suspended in '96, were renewed. The level of Ur Gur was first reached and later a large piece of the Naram Sin pavement was exposed. The statues found were all broken, which goes to confirm the idea that probably in the third century B. C. the temple was sacked. Besides the statues many valuable inscriptions were found on pieces of marble and brick...