Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Some of the diminution in these figures is not due, however, to the change in the rules alone. The men were better protected last fall than formerly and were required to wear their protections, and it was the policy of the season not to play a man in any way...
The establishment of a series of lectures on the professions by the Union is due to the belief that while a very large proportion of the undergraduates are trying during their college course to make a wise choice of a career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge...
...must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown by Professor Lowell's investigations. Though this is equally true in other colleges, the proportion is not nearly so decisive as it should...
After all the first concern of an institution of learning is to provide intellectual training. There are ways and ways of bringing this about, of course, but the fundamental way on which Harvard University as well as most of the universities of today was founded, is to provide a wholesome...
President Eliot delivered a lecture at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon entitled: "Who suffers most from bad city government?" President Eliot pointed out that the class of men who earn from $600 to $900 a year are the ones that suffer most, because the more wealthy pay, a smaller proportion...