Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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We are far from expressing the opinion that any large proportion of the waiters are dishonest, but that there are some of this sort there seems to be many grounds for suspecting.
Our correspondent on the scholarship question has erred to the extent that he has misinterpreted the remarks made by us in reference to scholarships reserved for the students of divinity as intended to apply to all scholarships. What our opinions are on the general subject of scholarships is entirely foreign...
Not long ago, President Angell, of Michigan University, after most earnestly recommending the system of co-education, proudly pointed to the fact that a good proportion of the women graduates of Ann Arbor are holding conspicuous positions as medical practitioners or teachers, among them being the president and five other...
It is a noted fact that a very small proportion of Princeton's graduates devote themselves to professional teaching. This fact strikes us the more forcibly when we consider the large number of graduates of Harvard, and especially of Yale, now engaged in the schools and colleges all over the...
They say that the universities produce dislike for hard life, and in this dislike is an ultimate and incurable cause of illsuccess. Others, though less hostile, consider the university career "no good," except to give manners, and hold that the money and time, though not exactly wasted, are expended to...