Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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In the matter of drinks, water is the best, because the physical system consists largely of water. It should be taken in proportion to physical action undergone. Coffee and tea are not detrimental, and do not produce the unpleasant reactive results of alcohol. Tea produces perspiration, while coffee produces a...
On account of the low marks in the mid-year examination in French 5, if any considerable improvement is shown in the annuals, the mid-year examination will count but as a small proportion of the year's work.
The subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday was "How to Develop the Chest." He began by giving statistics of the death proportion from consumption and tubercular diseases, arising from an imperfect development of the lungs and heart. Such affections are often inherited, or result from occupations and circumstances which...
It is not difficult to understand the public sentiment in the matter of college hazings, "rushes" and other misdeeds. It is, perhaps, naturally expected that the college student, with his superior training and advantages, will behave with more decorum, and exhibit more "respectability," than other members of the community, due...
A college of the progressive tendencies of Harvard should be the last to repeat the old stock complaint against college journals, that they are principally fault-finders and nurses of discontent. The better class of such papers certainly studiously endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to...