Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excluding "the unassimilables" too largely. "In securing the necessary limitation of enrolment, therefore, the great object to be striven for is to avoid all extremes and preserve a certain proportion between all more or less "unassailable" groups. There should not be more than ten per cent of the latter at the most...
...changed. The college is then confronted with a new problem, namely, that of enabling the student to work out a rational view of life which accords with the teachings of science but which also takes into account those higher truths of character which science cannot teach. For the latter the student must go to philosophy. A course in philosophy is therefore the natural complement of a course in science...
...explanations were offered. Dr. Phillips did not investigate the possible causes-increasing sophistication, increasing mating sterility, increasing frequency of divorce. He did not analyze the effect of Harvard's latter-day blood transfusions, beyond noting that, while the class of 1850 was 100% American, 1900 was but 81% racially English-speaking, 1925 but 59%; and that the superior fertility of the new immigrant stock doubtless concealed an even greater falling off in English-speaking reproductivity...
...undergraduate publications two years ago. Figures show, as they did then, that the scholastic records of students from public schools are decidedly higher, on the whole, than those of students from private schools. At the same time, extra-curricular activities are being carried on almost wholly by the latter group...
...would seem, therefore, that students from private schools would be better fitted for college than those from public schools. For the former, college is a continuation of a mode of life to which they are already accustomed, while for the latter, college is a wholly new experience, a complete break with the past. But once the two groups find themselves in competition with each other in college, new influences arise which tend to emphasize the differences which already exist between...