Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is only one reason why Senator Curtis and others want the new rule. It will, they think, make Vice President Dawes happy. At any rate, it will "save his face...
Study of these tables shows that the typhoid fever death rate has been steadily declining since 1910, except for 1913, 1921 and 1925, which have been designated as "typhoid years." Last year the rate was 3.43 per 100,000, an increase of 10% over...
...Harvard, which was really a family affair in the days when it was fashionable to eat in Memorial Hall. It is hoped through the college nucleus "to draw diverse types of undergraduates together in close units of academic and social fellowship." The theory seems sound, superficially, at any rate. In the colleges which have remained small in numbers, where personal contacts and opportunities for close acquaintance are inescapable, the student bodies are well knit, as they are not in the great universities...
Adult education in the U. S. has been chiefly bread-and-buttery. And "if our friendly critics from other lands and other types of civilization are right (and whether they are right or wrong they are at any rate unanimous), we as a people are very much better at earning a living than we are at living...
...this recoil engenders an opposite one-sidedness in himself. He abhors the "grind", or anything that looks like one. As for himself, he has won social distinction. He is elected to a club, or to half a dozen and the effect is cumulative. Thus he tends to over-rate this aspect of his education and be content with a "gentleman's C" in his courses...