Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Juniors in cap and gown always attract the attention of their classmates and of students from colleges where four years of study is the minimum required for a degree. Three year graduates, scorning the ways of the ordinary mortal and completing in three years what takes others four, make up...
Statistics have been prepared by the College Office to show that just before the war more than a sixth of the men receiving regular degrees completed their work in three years: for men entering in 1918 the proportion reached almost a quarter--an increase due no doubt to the influence...
It is estimated by one of the prominent New York critics that there are half a million music students in the United States and that out of that number several will probably make wide success and perhaps one will arise to greatness. That seems a very small proportion. Yet all...
Forty years ago, the University chapter elected automatically the upper fifth of each class. As time passed, it was realized that this proportion was too high, and that automatic election was an unsatisfactory method. Somewhere in the course of the years, the size was put on an arbitrary numerical basis...
University B and C started as though they meant to burn each other out. Both were doing close to 40 at the start, and quickly jumped ahead of the University 150-pound crew which, although rowing well, could not keep pace with its heavier opponents. The seconds had better proportion...