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Word: proportionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In declining to answer on behalf of the college the ridiculous Queries of a current questionnaire on "collegiatism" Dean Hanford has correctly foreseen the general attitude of the student body toward a national survey of such an unprofitable and tabloid nature. The majority of Harvard men can safely be exempted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISGUIDED EFFORT | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps the chief objection which has been raised against the Dance, from certain quarters at least, is in regard to social considerations. It is said that the constituency of the Junior Prom is not representative of the Harvard undergraduate body. I beg to take issue with this statement. Out of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Stoops to Conquer | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

The apparently simple arithmetical problem of computing the proper assignment of a specified number of representatives to the forty-eight states in proportion to their populations was an unsolved problem in Congress for over a hundred years. Up to 1921, no scientific tests of a good apportionment were known; a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW REPRESENTATION PLAN FULLY SET FORTH | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

President Dunster once complained that, in addition to doing all the teaching himself, he had to be the students' steward, "and to direct their brewer, baker, buttler, cook, how to proportion their commons." But he soon had help in this, and in the teaching, too; for the best men in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

The number of minor sports in which class teams do not exist is doubtless in proportion to contemporary interest in those sports. Nevertheless failure to establish such teams is a direct contradiction to any policy of general physical training. Tournaments in wrestling, boxing, squash, create at best a rather unenduring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SOUND BODY | 12/18/1928 | See Source »

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