Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to combine the English system of popular vote with the American method of decision by judges on logical presentation, and was innaugurated by the Harvard Debating Council in the preliminary debates last week, with rather interesting results. The audience at the Sophomore-Freshman debate by a ratio of 3 to 1 voted for the affirmative, confirming the unanimous decision of the judges and throwing a wholly unexpected sidelight on student opinion with regard to intercollegiate football. It is in the light of last week's decision that the vote of tonight's audience will be interesting...
...inaugurated by the Harvard Debating Council of having the audience render a decision upon the merits of the case while the judges decide solely upon superiority of presentation has produced an interesting result. The audience at the Freshman-Sophomore debate, numbering in all about fifty students voted by a ratio of three to one in favor of the affirmative, thus agreeing in their decision with the judges as well as throwing an interesting and wholly unexpect- ed light on student opinion on the matter of intercollegiate football. The audience at the Junior-Senior debate was too small to permit...
...Among those that will probably decline are the following: The price of bonds, the number of failures, building construction, the reserve ratio, bank investments...
...inflation, and of utilizing the facilities of the System to abate the inevitable rigors of deflation. He expressed the hope that business men will in the future make increasing use of the monthly bulletins issued by the Federal Reserve Board and by the regional banks, watch carefully the reserve ratio of the banks as reported weekly, and take timely warning of the changes in credit conditions indicated by changes in the discount rates of the Reserve banks
...Navy is reduced to 65,000 men, we will lose the prestige that was won for us by the Conference in establishing the 5-5-3 ratio for battleships," said Rear-Admiral Albert Gleaves, in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday morning. "It is clear that the Conference did not contemplate a reduction in the personnel and auxiliaries of the fleet, but in limiting us to 18 'battleships the Conference, or at least our delegates assumed that that implied a homogenous and well-rounded out navy. Such a navy as the Conference contemplated, which is called a 'Hughes navy', would...