Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life, it is painful to have to choose new courses when he has barely come through the ordeal of the old ones. To the man to whom studies are the summum bonum, it is painful to contemplate the pamphlet known as "Courses of Instruction" and consider what a small fraction of possible education he is able to take. But in either case it has to be done, and done at once. Our familiar habit of leaving everything until the last possible moment in this case is a serious disadvantage. Unless one is certain in advance what courses he expects...
...management of this branch of Some time ago it became clearly evident athletics at Harvard requires the major part of a man's time during the college year. No one on the Graduate Rowing Committee, as it has hitherto been composed, could possibly give more than a small fraction of this time, or, in fact, be certain of giving some time every day. The Captain of the University Crew has all he can attend to in taking care of the University squad and his own college work. Therefore, it was necessary to find some one to act as supervisor...
...more than 200 percent" have been made by armchair lunchrooms in this state. Evidently in food for body there is food for thought. It is disquieting to suggest that "one egg" at the Waldorf, "combination supper" at the Georgian, or the "double-O" at Jimmie's cost but a fraction of what we pay for them--we can hardly have a lower opinion of their intrinsic worth than...
Until the hammer throw, the last event on the program to be finished, the Andover men were leading their Exeter rivals by only a fraction of a point. But the former took both first and second places in this event, thus clinching the meet...
...their ability and Terry was not allowing the men on his side of the boat to fall behind, but the race was too hard and every stroke sent the Tigers and Midshipmen a few inches further ahead. At the one-mile mark, the while Princeton flag went down a fraction of a second ahead of the blue and several moments before the Crimson. Now came Navy's long awaited spurt and her supporters gave evidence of the fact that they had confidence in its outcome. Up, up went the stroke to 36, while the Navy oarsmen kept up their long...