Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Friday evening, at the request of the Phi Betta Kappa Society, of the men who had received the appointment of Philosophical Oration, from the class of ninety-eight. As it had been proposed to raise the standard of admission to the society from 3.15 to 3.30, on a scale of 4.00, the meeting was held for the purpose of giving these men an opportunity to express their views on the question. It was unanimously voted that this action should not be carried into effect with the present junior appointments. It was suggested that the plan should be carried...
...economically possible under the law controlling the value of money? That law is: The more freely gold, say, in any given interval of time, is produced, and the longer that production is carried on, the less, other things being equal, becomes the motive to continued production on the same scale. The new metal going into circulation drowns the mines, or all but the mines. Such is the economic condition under which the production of the precious metals is carried on. In the early ages the production was non-economic. Gold and silver were regarded...
...ground, to the approval of a general plan for the arrangement of the buildings upon the new site and to the laying of the corner stone of the library, the first building to be erected. Circumstances have jutified the belief that the re-establishment of the college upon a scale commensurate with the extent and importance of its educational work would unfailingly command the confidence and support of the alumni and of the public...
...Pierian Sodality is, we believe, unique among college musical clubs. Only the larger colleges could possibly have the material for an orchestra on so large a scale, and in none does there appear to have been made any such ambitious attempt as at Harvard...
...there are at Harvard. It has offered a very desirable economy to many students who have found it necessary to reduce the expenses of their education to a minimum, and to whom therefore Memorial Hall has been practically closed. But the methods by which cooperation on so small a scale can be made most effective, must be far different from those which are successfully employed in the running of Memorial. Excellent as they doubtless are for their purpose, their introduction into Memorial, under the wholly different conditions which exist there, would be extremely unadvisable. In protesting against so introducing them...