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Word: proportionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Times condemns the current tendency to overestimate the value of a college degree. A general sloppiness of thought uses the terms "college graduate" and "educated man" as identities. In many instances they are the same, but not always. And never are they related as cause and effect. A college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOADED DICE | 2/12/1925 | See Source »

When a professor decides before an examination what percentage of the class he will flunk, what percentage he will pass and what proportion of honor grades he will give, he lays himself open to a charge of gross injustice. To the student who dares complain he replies either that he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MURDER BY STATISTICS | 2/11/1925 | See Source »

The opposition to the new ruling seems to concentrate on the injustice of not permitting schoolboys to get credit for examinations taken in the fall unless they enter college in the same year. It is a well known fact that many men have gained a large proportion of their points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW REQUIREMENTS AROUSE OPPOSITION | 2/10/1925 | See Source »

Professor Bailey's own research work has dealt largely with the meteorological problems of Peru and with the southern stars which he has photographed with several high powered telescopes at the Arequipa Station. This work has been of the greatest importance to astronomical research, partly because of the station's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE ASTRONOMER PARTING TRIBUTE | 2/4/1925 | See Source »

The management expects a full house, according to reports received yesterday afternoon, and a large proportion of the audience will consist of undergraduates at the University, who have bought large blocks of seats. Several members of the faculty will also be present.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANAGEMENT EXPECTS FULL HOUSE AT HARVARD OPERA | 2/4/1925 | See Source »

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