Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The dinner tonight in honor of Major Goetz and Major Parker marks the end of the association of these two officers with the University. Major Goetz came here in the spring of 1919, when nearly all the efforts of the War Department were directed toward demobilization, and laid the foundations...
This wholesale attack on education, has of course, drawn out of storm of opposition; and a writer in the "Century Magazine" has succeeded in beating the psychologists at their own game. By using the results of the same tests, he has proved with remarkable conclusiveness that schooling and efficiency go...
Docket, a periodical that circulates among members of the bar, points out that Washington, D. C., has (in proportion to its population) more lawyers than any state in the Union, there being one to every 181 persons there. Excepting D. C., lawyers are most plentifully assembled on and near the...
The proportion of expatriates among our great artists would partially explain this. Whistler (quarrelsome cosmopolite), Mary Cassatt (grande dame in Paris), John Sargent (brilliant and fashionable London portrait painter) are three of our greatest figures-but hardly expressive of America.
But this dilution of the British-descended population merely necessitates greater efforts toward mutual understanding. Association must, in the future, develop the sympathy which has hitherto resulted from the ties of blood. And whatever regrets one may feel at the decrease in the proportion of Anglo-Saxon Americans should be...