Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From comparative statistics of the Philadelphia Bulletin, it appears that whereas at Harvard the ratio of instructors to students is as one to seven, in the average of colleges throughout the country, it is as one to ten. Such as showing would suggest that personal contact between Faculty and student body is freer and more instructive here than elsewhere. Yet so many are the courses given in abstruse and advanced subjects, where the professor collects a small circle of pupils for research work and the like, that in the large introductory courses this is by no means the case...
...gave courses which 16 Harvard men attended. The next year we had 12 students in Andover and also taught 20 Harvard men. This year we are giving instruction to 22 Andover students and there are 20 Harvard men taking work under our Faculty. Such a ratio of increase, of course, cannot keep up, but we look for a steady growth. That indicates the wisdom of the removal from Andover, but we are also enjoying the benefits of a revival in religious interest among the young...