Word: ratio
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...thousand and seventy men, and another hall, on the same principle, would make the total number of men accommodated about twenty-one hundred and forty. With the membership in the University at three thousand, thirteen hundred men wish Memorial board. The two halls together would, if the same ratio were preserved, be ample for the University with a membership of forty-nine hundred. When the University has attained such a growth, it will have largely to increase all its facilities and be changed in many ways. Any solution of the matter which looks so far forward is all that...
...Boston public in the literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent of the change which overthrew it that Wendell Phillips appears. It was probably the anti-slavery movement itself, with its feelings and sympathies calling...
...Bimetallism practicable and desirable. Nicholson, Part II, ch. IV). (a) Ratio of gold and silver determined, not by relative amounts, but by relative demand. (Nicholson, pp. 214-217). (1) International legislation can regulate demand. (Barbour, p. 42). (2) A single country can do this. (Walker, p. 266). (b) Overproduction of silver impossible. (Andrews, pp. 212-215). (c) Bimetallism would give sufficient money...
...ratio of college graduates who are mentioned in "Appleton's Cyclopaedia" to those that are not thus mentioned is one to forty, while that of non college men who are mentioned to those who are not, is about one to ten thousand. The number of graduates from the leading colleges is as follows: Harvard, 883; Yale, 713; Princeton, 319; Dartmouth 208; Cornell, 198; Brown, 189; Union, 188; Pennsylvania, 175; Williams, 157; Bowdoin 104; Amherst. 102. These are but very few of the facts. The table is so arranged that it shows the percentage of the different professions, and furnishes much...
Mathematical Seminary. Anharmonic Ratio in connection with the theory of Inversion. Mr. J. W. Glover. University...