Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...follow. Luncheon will be served in the building at 1 o'clock, and at 2, a business meeting and election of officers will take place. At 2.15 o'clock, Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, assistant professor of mathematics in the University, will deliver a lecture entitled, "What Is a Ratio?" which will be followed by a general discussion, led by G. W. Evans '83, principal of the Charlestown high school. The meeting will be open to the public...
...lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza; and Mr. Douglas's "Fourteen to One." This, which sounds rather like Kipling in a great hurry, expands with moderate vigor the statement that "the number of deaths in the late Cuban War caused by disease and wounds bore the ratio of fourteen...
...afternoon schedule. The arrangement then made is substantially that in force today. But despite this effort to balance the schedule, the morning hours have become more and more crowded, both as regards number of courses and number of students taking the courses. Thus during the present year, the ratio between the average number of courses in the morning hours and the average number in the afternoon hours is approximately as two to one. The average number of men enrolled in the morning hours varies from three to six times the average number in the afternoon hours...
...third question is, how far does the new plan tend to realize the prime object--the saving of expenses to Harvard students? Financially it can do better than the present system only by decreasing the expense ratio, or by increasing the sales. It is not the purpose of the Directors to reduce expenses, but so far as can be inferred, to increase them, and at the same time to increase the sales in proportion. There is no magic in "incorporation" which can avoid this plain issue. The sales now amount to about $250,000 a year; and further increase...
...World's Work"--"The Ratio of Education to Production," by C. W. Dabney '44, President of the University of Tennessee; "The Rise of the Russian Jew," by Hutchins Hapgood...