Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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We publish in another column a communication complaining of the coldness which seems to pervade the audience at the Symphony concerts given in Sanders Theatre. It is true that although there is always a fair number of people present, the proportion of students is small, and a Cambridge audience is...
There is one marked improvement in this number of the Monthly over the last: it contains less poetry in proportion to the prose. Too much verse in a magazine of this nature is apt to pall.
"It is a thousand pities that the accidents connected with the game of foot-ball are of such a nature as to force themselves upon the attention of the spectator, and to leave behind an impression of roughness and brutality which is not borne out by facts. The casualties are...
On the chart are plotted the measurements of an individual of American ancestry-his age, 33 years, weight, 161 pounds, and height, 5 feet, 9.7 inches Upon referring to the chart, it will be noticed that the most remarkable characteristic of this figure is its approach to perfect symmetry in...
He resolved to widen the range of observation, believing that on the simple factor, weight, height, and chest girths, could not be based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an...