Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...position is doing a real service, not only to the foreigners but also to the American missions and institutions abroad. He is given the opportunity to see at first hand, and to understand the work Americans are doing in the Orient. In view of the rapid advancement and growth of the East, it is a rare chance to study closely the economic and political conditions of Japan and China, as well as of our own possessions. There is an additional attraction offered to medical students. In addition to regular teaching experience, very valuable training may be received in the various...
When the party drew nearer the lost city, they came into a country which the Indians themselves knew nothing about. This the engineers surveyed very carefully. The city was finally found on the top of a mountain, for the most part burried under a growth of plant life which took months to be cleared away. Professor Bingham called attention to the ingenious way in which the Incas built their houses: entirely of huge blocks of granite, with the aid of no cement, derricks or metal tools. A typical example was a temple erected on a stone which slanted...
...college course from a mental standpoint, and in order that it might have some conception of the physical changes I have published various figures and conclusions. Professor C. S. Minot of Harvard, who has demonstrated his facts by experiments on animals has said with respect to power of growth: 'Paradoxical as it will sound whenever it is first stated to any one, the period of youth is the period of most rapid decline.' In a table compiled by Professor Donaldson on the growth of English boys, he shows that the increase in weight from the nineteenth to the twenty-third...
...study of the figures not only demonstrates that there has been increase in the growth power of Yale students, but also corroborates the assertion that the youth of the present day are better developed physically than those of past generations. At the close of the war, Dr. Gould had occasion to examine 291 normal and healthy students from the Senior and Junior classes at Yale and Harvard. From these examinations he compiled the following statistics, with which we compare the measurements of the present class: 1910. 1864. Senior Class. Dr. Gould's Statistics. Age 22.2 21.7 Height...