Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undertake such original studies as may be necessary; third, to conduct a campaign of public interest in municipal cleanliness, especially in those sections of the city where the population is most dense; fourth, to recommend to the city government from time to time such sanitary improvements as seem desirable; fifth, to publish ultimately the results of the findings of the Commission as a matter of historical interest...
...announce that game has been arranged with Penn State for twenty-fifth, subject to approval of our Athletic Committee." (Signed) Fred W. Moore...
...fifth, J. Murray singled. Ostergren flied to Gannett. O'Dwyer singled, advancing J. Murray to third. The latter scored on Saunders's out, Wingate to Ayres. O'Brien then flied to Gannett. In the ninth, with two out, J. Murray singled, and scored on Ostergren's three- bagger. Ostergren scored on a wild pitch by Felton...
Harvard scored one in the fifth. With one out, Young singled, but was forced at second when Frye hit to Cawley. Alsop singled, sending Frye to third and the latter scored when Wingate beat out an infield hit. Wingate stole second; Clark drew a pass, but Ayres hit to R. Murray, retiring the side. The other run was made in the sixth. Gannett singled and went to second when Hardwick connected safely. Gannett reached third on Phillips's out, Cawley to Ostergren, and scored on Young's out at first. Frye flied to Saunders, retiring the side...
...students who were in the lower half of the group in entrance work, nearly 40 per cent are found in the upper half in the last three years of college; and of the dozen students who ranked highest at entrance, some were in the lowest fifth of the class by Junior year. "There is," says Professor Thorndike, "every reason to believe that of those students who did yet worse in their entrance examinations, and so were shut out, a fairly large percentage would have done better in college than a third of those who were admitted." It is a "moral...