Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned; Harvard plays football while civilization totters. Is it, after all, too Brisbanian an analogy? There were a thousand men at the football mass meeting last Thursday and yet no one expects that a fraction of that number will attend the discussion of the war tonight. Nevertheless, it should be a good meeting. Partisan animosities are now well under control and most people are aware of their own ignorance or lack of insight into the fundamentals of the conflict that finds half the civilized world in arms. Under such circumstances, there is everything...
...tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons--and of really good reasons there is none, for the simple cause that it is not based upon reason at all, but upon...
...from miscellaneous funds as fine money and special gifts. To really remedy the existing inefficient conditions some such system as is in force in the scientific departments where special fees are charged for certain laboratory courses could very well be instituted. The fee need not be greater than a fraction of a dollar for each member of a large course and provided no considerable changes were made in the required reading, would not need to be permanently continued. For example, in a half course of 100 men approximately three volumes of each of ten required books could be added...
...dual swimming meet between Harvard and Cornell, held last night in the Boston Y. M. C. A., resulted in a well-earned victory for Cornell. The first event was the relay race which proved very exciting, as Kohn of Cornell defeated our last man, Fullerton, by only a fraction of a second. In the 200-yard race Fullerton won easily, but there was a close fight for second place between Starbuck and Kohn, which the former won after a beautiful spurt at the finish. In the 50-yard event Wentworth won a well-earned race from Bowers of Cornell...
Only a small fraction of the Class have sent in lives to the Photograph Committee to date. Since many men may have lost their blanks, the Committee will be glad to furnish duplicate blanks to any one desiring them. These may be had at Holworthy 16 any day between 1.30 and 2.30 o'clock. The Committee cannot urge too strongly the necessity of having these lives handed in at once. They should be made out and mailed today. 1913 PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...