Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solve his problems by himself." Indeed, Cleveland's Mayor Carl Stokes and Gary's Mayor Richard Hatcher could not have been elected without considerable white support. White cooperation is vital at every level of development, if only because no amount of incantation can change the basic ratio of blacks to whites in the U.S. population...
...material in his files are research papers showing that there are Fibonacci numerical patterns in the meter of works by Virgil and other Roman poets, and Fibonacci relationships between the different sizes of mosaic patterns in the floors of Greek and Roman ruins. There are studies showing that the ratio between any two successive larger Fibonacci numbers is 1 to 1.618-the same as the ratio between the sides of the "golden rectangle," a form that is traditionally used by artists and architects to produce effects that are most pleasing...
...Harvard and Radcliffe stay separate and have an inflexible number of spaces in their respective dormitories. But once the two schools merge, the tradition will be very hard to uphold. It is not even certain that Harvard could legally discriminate against female applicants at a four to one ratio, but more fundamentally it is hard to defend philosophically an educational system in which males and females are given equal treatment in every way except admissions...
...free competition for 1500 places in the Harvard-Radcliffe freshman class would be sure to reduce the number of male graduates, and such a reduction, say several Faculty members, is "unthinkable." One administrator in fat has predicted that the merger will not be approved if the four to one ratio is changed, without a concurrent expansion of the College. And expanding the College, to judge by the Gill Committee's recommendation that Mather House be used instead for deconversion and the Wolff Committee's more recent conclusion that the size of the graduate school be reduced, is unlikely...
...topics to be studied are coed living, male-female ratio, special problems, of women's education, jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences over students' lives, problems of freshmen, and admissions procedures...