Word: rated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this time less than 50 lives have been returned to the Secretary, every member of the class of 1902 is urged to fill out the blanks as soon as possible, for unless they come in at a faster rate it will be impossible to get out the report by next autumn. Any member of the class who has not received blanks, or having received them has lost or destroyed them, will kindly notify the Secretary at once...
...been continued. The mortality in the British concentration camps during the last seven months according to official British reports outclasses anything of the sort ever reported in Cuba. During three months more than 15,000 of the women and children so confined have succumbed. This means a death rate of over 2 per cent per month,--or over 25 per cent per year. In other words, the present policy if maintained would obliterate the entire Boer population in less than four years. Even in December when it was claimed that great improvements had been made in the arrangements...
...available earnings of the general investments of the University (that is, funds invested as a whole and representing roughly 5-6 of all the investments, the balance being specially invested) amounted to 4.7 per cent on the principal, 14-100 of 1 per cent more than the rate of the preceding year. The total amount of gifts for capital account (that is, gifts for creating new funds or for increasing old funds) was $826,669.43. The total amount of gifts for immediate use was $129,497.77. These figures include gifts actually made but no promises of future gifts...
...preparation for it, because of the added worry of the final examinations, and further because our race at New London is, if anything, slightly longer in time. It is true that the Oxford-Cambridge race is about three-eighths of a mile longer than our race, but the rate of flow in the river there is so much greater than at New London, that the time required to cover the longer distance, is no greater than that required in our race, and it is the time that counts...
...expedition has been sent from the Agassiz Museum to the Maldive Islands, for the purpose of st dying and making a collection of the rate coral formations of the Indian Ocean. Mr. Agassiz fitted out the expedition and is conducting it in person, accompanied by W. McM. Woodworth. A steamer was chartered at Colombo, Ceylon, from the British India Company, to transport the expedition to the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where the Maldive Islands lie. The islands of the Indian Ocean are the only group of atolls remaining which Mr. Agassiz has not examined in his explorations...