Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another pressing need is for more dormitories. This year the University could not come anywhere near accommodating the whole class of 1925 in the Freshman Halls; we ought to have at least one more. And more dormitories for upper classmen too, to say nothing of men in the graduate departments...
Instead of seeking for an analogy in flies, why did he not look for it among the "weaklings" of the armies engaged in the great war? Has so large a proportion of the human race ever before had to endure so much hardship or exhibited an equal capacity for endurance...
When will the public learn that a college is merely a vertical section of society? The proportion between the classes is not strictly the same as in the outside, world, to be sure, but all classes are there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make...
The Red Cross is an organization which cannot enter into an ordinary give and take arrangement: those who take from it are unable to give. Hence the giving devolves on others. And those who need its services get them only in proportion as these others give. It goes without saying...
Bless my stars he works "only eight hours a day", he has "money to burn", he "throws to the winds his money and himself". Now I ask you, where in the devil do we get the right to pass such a judgement on a chap who, if nothing else, is...