Word: proportionment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Chaucer's language has more French in it than this, and yet much less than is commonly taken for granted, and I think that one great reason for it is to be found in his different system of versification. His measures and rhymes and the greater nicety of ear demanded...
For the purposes of poetry our language has gained by the infusion of Latin. It has become a kind of Corinthian metal richer than any one of its compounds taken by itself or all of them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made...
We are not sure that precisely these plans could be put in operation, but the important fact is that additional waiters, increasing the present number not more than in the proportion of eighteen to fourteen, could probably so be used in perfecting the organization of the service as to maintain...
In consideration of this condition of affairs, Dr. Lawrence of Cambridge has written a letter to the senate of the university in which he shows what excellent facilities the university has for carrying on graduate work, and in which he expresses the belief that, if such work was started, a...
In response to the request of the Classical Department for applications for admission to the Dress Rehearsal of the Latin Play-on the part of classical teachers or students who otherwise would not see the play-about three times as many tickets were asked for as were at the committee...