Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...memory as a means instead of an end is a faculty--that is rarely used to qualify the accuracy of a person's memory per se. We are wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and yet of what merit is the mind that can only imitate and plagiarize? To store up mere facts and uncorrelated details is worse than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio...
...establish and maintain a two-years' compulsory course of military training as a minimum for their physically-fit male students, which course when entered upon by any student shall as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minister of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction, and to use their endeavors to promote its interests...
...football team enters the game with the Yale freshmen this afternoon with a decided advantage in weight over its rivals. The Harvard Freshmen average 178 pounds to their opponents' 174, but the greatest difference is in the comparison of the lines. Yale's line averages 179 pounds per man while the Freshmen average is 191 pounds. The Freshman line from tackle to tackle totals the enormous figure of 200 pounds per man, while Yale's line would ordinarily be a very heavy one, with an average of 187. In the backfield Yale has a two-pound advantage...
...total amount set aside for dividends, $16,614, will be paid out under two dividend rates one of nine per cent, on cash purchases and the other of seven per cent, on credit purchases...
This has been the largest business in the Society's history, and the total amount to be paid will be $16,614, which is an increase of $1.538 over the amount paid a year ago. Two rates of dividends have been declared, one of nine per cent. on cash purchases and the other of seven per cent on credit purchases...