Word: proof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement that the Harvard Club of Boston is planning to erect a permanent clubhouse furnishes conclusive proof of the wisdom of its founders and of the strength of the spirit of cooperation that has recently animated the graduates in the vicinity...
...increased fifty per cent. during the last five years that he has held the office. That the gross profits during the year amount to over 139 per cent., and the net profits total over 37 per cent. of the $50,000 capital stock of the society give striking proof of the feasibility of co-operative management and profit-sharing under modern business conditions...
...College overrun by snobs, these figures may be startling. It would be folly if we should attempt to deduce from statistics conclusive evidence that Harvard is less of a rich man's College or more democratic than Yale or Princeton-- such questions do not lend themselves to mathematical proof. We give the figures with the hope that perhaps they will lead to a more general realization of the truth that Harvard is by no means the undemocratic institution that it is often made...
...international track meet can not fail to be successful. From the available data it is almost impossible to make any adequate comparison of the opposing teams. But whatever the result, this meet offers abundant proof that, although keen rivals at home. Harvard and Yale are at bottom thoroughly united by the same interests...
...June number of the Monthly is marred by more than a dozen bad proof-reading errors which reflect little credit on the editors...