Word: rated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distance covered that wearies the oarsman. This is occasioned by the fact that rowing is a form of exercise which forces the athlete to take a breath every time he pulls a stroke. The normal respiration of a man is about 17 breaths a minute. Now if the rate of stroke is, say 34 strokes to the minute, it means that the oarsman is breathing twice as fast as the naturally would. Increase the rate of stroke and the strain on the heart of the man becomes proportionately greater because no human being could stand the strain of a high...
...each time. The cause of this w as membership in includes all the colleges which have teams in the field. They are divided in to several classes, according to a standard determined from their ability shown in previous years. The University team when first organized was not a first-rate team, and as result was put in class C where it has remained since. Last year they were second in this class, losing first place only through a very poor score made in the initial match before the team was fairly on its feet...
...very distinctly beginning to appear. This vast, unmilitary nation, emerging into the adolescence of modern government, is the vastest storehouse of virgin economic energy still remaining on the globe's face. Her coal and iron are sufficient to last the world for 1,000 years at the present rate of consumption...
...groups of specialists. Thus the great meeting in New York this week is marked by the absence of all the social science associations, which meet in Columbus, Ohio. The separation between the social and the physical scientists can surely not be of any real advantage to either. At any rate the great outstanding and deplorable fact is that on the vital questions requiring their co-operation, e.g. the effect of immigration or of the interbreeding of races we have multitudes of impassioned orations and sophomore essays, but nothing worthy of being called science. Thousands upon thousands of studies have been...
What are the causes of this pernicious weakness? Undoubtedly they are in part world-wide, for the decline in the birth-rate among Harvard men is paralleled by a like decline among the upper and middle classes in all civilized nations and especially in America. However, this does not exonerate college men; the guilt rests even more heavily upon those who have had opportunity to see the light...