Word: graphing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning of a Yale football game one professor, who conducted a large course and unfortunately felt it necessary to hold a meeting as usual, counted the number of men actually in attendance and later compared his figure with the monitor's report. Theoretically, that is monetarily, the graph curve rose to twice the height of the curve of actual count...
Periodic cycles of depression and optimism seem to be the rule in the Harvard literary realm. Last year was marked by a low-point in the graph: Heywood Broun's pessimism about our post-war writing, supported by half-a-dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since...
...attitude of business leaders has not as yet noticeably affected Harvard College graduates. The graph shows that the percentage of these in the Business Scho I has declined steadily until at present the cycle has reached the depression point. With the continuous and successful development of the case system as applied to business, however, there will inevitably be an upward swing. Just as when Professor Langdell applied the case system to legal teaching fifty years ago, men from College will gradually turn from office apprenticeship to graduate school training...
These are the days when the Infirmary List grows ominously long. Dr. Lee's recent report reminds us that the coming months are the lowest on the graph of average health. The press is filled with rumors of a new influenza epidemic. Surely we cannot afford to play with contagion here, where disease once started is apt to spread throughout the University like a forest fire. Fortunately, the cessation of classes offers a partial fire-break. But sore-throats and anesges are not to be tolerated; no man with even an incipient cold should shun the doctor's office...