Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very few private business concerns, no matter how well administered, can show such a high standard of probity and efficiency as has obtained among the men doing the work on the Panama Canal...
...yard dash, 9-feet limit; 600-yard run. 30-yard limit: 45-yard high hurdle race, 3 fights. 3 feet 6 inches high, 9-feet limit: 1,000-yard run. 50-yard limit; one-mile run, 60-yard limit: putting 16-pound shot, 6-feet limit. Competitors must show that they have put the 16-pound shot 38 feet, and high-jumped 5 feet, 3 inches in competition, in order to qualify for these events...
...article, printed in a recent number of "Science" from the pen of Professor Cattell of Columbia. The special phase of the question considered in this work is the prominence of the scientists who are faculty members in the leading universities of this country. Professor Cattell's statistics, given below, show the number of men working at several universities, who may be ranked among the thousand leading American men of science. Number of Gain since Institutions. men.* 1906. Harvard, 79.5 +13 Columbia, 48.0 --12 Chicago, 47.5 +8.5 Yale, 38.0 +11.5 Cornell, 35.0 +1.5 Johns Hopkins, 33.5 +3.0 Wisconsin...
...conclusion Professor Cattell states in which departments of science the various institutions show greatest strength. The "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" in comment says: "According to Professor Cattell's method of computation, Harvard ranks first in the departments of physics, botany, zoology, physiology, and pathology; second in mathematics, geology, anatomy, anthropology and psychology; and third in chemistry and astronomy. In every case Harvard either has first place or is so near to it that the shifting of a few points would place her there. Professor Cattell very properly concludes that, from his point of view, the 'primacy of Harvard among our universities...
Dean E. H. Wells will be in the Treasure Room at Gore Hall today between 4 and 5 o'clock, and will be glad to show these rare books to any students who are interested in them...