Word: proportionment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...surpass Harvard is fatuitous. Unless Yale gains not merely in per cent but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind; and whatever may be true for the last three years, during the present year, Harvard has gained not only more numerically, but more proportionately than Yale. The same is true when we consider the past ten years, the past twenty years or the past century. What right have we to argue on the paltry data of three years? What good will it do us to pick out of a hundred years the three in which...