Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advantages of boxing for the individual--teaching self-defence and providing exercise--are wrapped up in the merits of the pastime from the point of view of the University. The season fits conveniently into our athletic calendar. Hockey, wrestling, and gymnastics have drawn only a fraction of the students into mid-winter sports, and boxing offers additional training for large numbers. Those who cannot compete on University teams have found a novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last...
...Boston," however faulty, is poignant and beautiful. In Mr. Poore's poem, an exceptional technique is combined with a delicacy of feeling which is difficult to analyze. Mr. Stewart Mitchell's "Neith," perhaps the most remarkable poem in the number, is also the most baffling. If there were a fraction less intellect in it, and a fraction more of real poetry, it would be notable verse...
...faculty members on the Athletic Council. A series of weekly social gatherings for all students interested in outdoor exercise has been arranged. Last year Cornell had four hundred men out for track athletics, and it is expected that fully five hundred men will be enrolled this fall. Only a fraction of this number will have a chance for the university team, but the Cornell policy is that everyone will benefit from exercise, and that the prime purpose of athletics should be to attract as many persons as possible...
There is no reason why the College cannot select the best preparatory schools of the West and accept their certificate for a small fraction, comprising the best scholars of their graduating classes. Such a procedure might very readily have the effect of actually making an examination-less admission to Harvard the goal for scholastic competition in many schools. And it would in all probability attract a number of the most desirable...
...huge Stadium, with the massing of automobiles on every side, and the dining and theatre-going scheduled to follow the game represent a huge expenditure in personal enjoyment. What could be more fitting than that the participants should contribute to a crying need of suffering humanity some fraction of what they are spending on themselves? If everybody who goes to the game would give a single dollar, there would be at least $45,000. This would prove surprisingly effective in keeping the breath of line in the starving peoples of Europe, now crushing under the iron heel of remorseless...