Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...argument used in your editorial of the day before would probably have remained silent had he perceived the fallacy of the argument from percents. He cannot see how Yale may, with a smaller number to start with, gain more proportionately and at the same time gain less in real numbers. Let us suppose that we have two cities-one with a population of ten thousand and the other with five hundred thousand. The former makes again of one hundred per cent. in a given time, while the latter only gains four per cent. The writer of the communication thinks that...
...good-that the whole thing is a huge failure. This comes from the injudicious habit of giving alms. Now the poor are not a class, they are a thousand classes; hitherto people have failed to recognize this and as a result have been deluded by the idea that the real work of charity was to give alms, to furnish work, or to improve the homes of the poor. The truth is that the almsgiver only reaches people who will beg, the employer only those who want work, and the furnisher of homes only those who want homes...
...valid reason why Harvard should not have a successful team this year as well as any year. Her facilities for practice are certainly as good as those of any other college, and her amount of amount of possible material clearly greater. All that is needed, therefore, is a little real energy. We cannot afford, no college represented at Mott Haven can afford, to let a single event pass uncontested when there is even a possible chance of victory. By neglecting to send a team this year we reduce materially our chances of winning the new cup. That there is material...
...which is most attractive to the real oarsman, but the fun of sculling-an art which, once acquired, will yield more pleasure to many than any other sport. I earnestly hope that men will not be discouraged by imaginary difficulties, but find out at least what advantages there are for sculling in Cambridge...
...following books are offered below their real value...