Word: proportionment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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sacrifice of self for the good of others. As well in the world of nature as in spiritual things it is true that as you give just so shall you receive. Once the forces of nature were little utilized, but when man gave himself to them, that is to their...
The chief obstacle to improvement is lack of money. The buildings have no special fund devoted to their needs, but must rely on contributions from a general fund out of which many other needs must be supplied. To devote an extraordinarily large proportion of this fund to the buildings will...
The first is that a student should not be on two 'varsity teams in the same year. This would bring two good results. It certainly would tend to reduce undue exactions of athletics upon the time and energy of individuals, and it would increase the general utility of athletics. The...
Proportion is the united relation of the several parts of a building. It is a refined sense of what looks well. Architects are altogether too fond of using complicated formulas in proportion, when simple rules are just as useful and all that is really necessary for it.
These figures show an increase in the course of the four years in the number of men from both St. Paul's and Andover, but a falling off in the number from Exeter. This apparently retrograde movement in regard to the representation from Exeter is owing to the great decrease...