Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college courses are closely related with successful careers after graduation. President Foster has compiled a sufficient mass of statistics from the records of over a 100 colleges to prove that scholastic honors lead to achievement in the outside world, if mere statistics are to be regarded as conclusive proof...
...appearance of new aims and ideals in the minds of these young men. Never before have commercial enterprises, engineering projects, and financial adventures offered such rich prizes to the educated man. It is truly a mercenary age. The registration figures of the engineering schools in this country give conclusive proof of the change in the ideals of the men who enter our colleges. In 1870 there were 18 engineering schools in the country with 107 graduates, while six years ago, in 1910, there were 118 such schools and 4,700 graduates. Obviously these statistics tell the story...
...fact that the University is opening on time is proof that the danger from the infantile paralysis epidemic in Cambridge is negligible. Were conditions otherwise, neither the medical nor the College authorities would have allowed over five thousand men to assemble today...
Still fresh in the minds of many is the inspiring picture of the Harvard Regiment as it passed in review before Major-General Leonard Wood on Memorial Day last spring. Many were pleasantly surprised at that time to see a proof of the serious spirit of patriotism which actually existed among the members of the University. Some had doubted if the enthusiasm for the drill would last a month, and scoffed at the possibility of establishing regular military drill as part of the curriculum...
...outlook and a certainty in regard to the future of this great war which it would not be possible to gain in any other way. It strengthened me in the belief of the determination of the English nation to pursue the war to complete and conclusive victory, Ample proof was given that the English, rather than the Germans, are the efficient race. The former have raised and equipped an army in two years with a perfection which excels what the latter has been able to do in a decade. The entire equipment of transportation from the munition plants...