Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process whatever? A small proportion of grammar school boys go on to high school. A majority of those who take this step are better equipped intellectually than those who do not. Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard or Harvard College Scholarships are--from the point of view of mental capacity and scholarly inclinations--the picked...
...means using a great variety of methods and mixing among a great variety of people. This inquiry is carried on under, the joint direction of the department of Economics and of the senior residents of the Settlement. In the second place, the holder of the fellowship devotes a substantial fraction of his time to certain phases of the distinctive work of the settlement,--boys' clubs, athletics, dramatics, charity work, local improvement committee work, etc. In nearly every case it is possible to keep the study and the practical neighborhood work in close relation so that each re-enforces the other...