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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Let us analyze our position: We have two debating societies, the Harvard Union, reorganized last year for the purpose of maintaining a high standard of debating; and the Wendell Phillips Club, organized to afford practice and social intercourse to its members, who need have only ordinary ability for speaking. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/12/1894 | See Source »

"Science which for two decades has perhaps reared more academic buildings than existed before; which is coming to underlie all the arts of peace and war, and to train the experts who in more and more fields now rule the world, is now again giving to universities greatly enlarged functions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Universities. | 3/31/1894 | See Source »

It is beyond a question that one's intellectual dominion is greatly extended even by the mere ability to read other languages than his own. For it is precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragments from the Lectures of Professor Lowell. | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

The annual report of Professor Peirce, Dean of the Graduate School, reveals a degree of development which is very gratifying. A decided increase in the membership of the school has been in progress during the past ten years and is still continuing at a steady rate. The increase in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Graduate School. | 3/21/1894 | See Source »

We most earnestly hope that students will consider the matter seriously. If the great proportion of students resolve to frown upon any cheering, we believe that incipient demonstrations will be checked.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/15/1894 | See Source »

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