Word: ten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 because the small town is making a greater proportional growth it is actually out-stripping...
...Almost ten years have now passed since the Oedipus Tyrannus was played in Sanders theatre by Harvard students. Although since 1881 numerous Greek tragedies as well as the Birds of Aristophanes have been represented at English universities, nothing has been done at Harvard. We hope, however, that the time has come when the Greek department will give another proof of its vigor. We understand that Professor J. W. White is in favor of the undertaking of another play, though perhaps not on such a grand scale as before. His idea is rather to have two short plays, a Latin comedy...
Writers of ten minute exercises in English VIII. will find their productions in Sever...
...very promising. Of the eight which came in fourth last year only two men are rowing at present. Crehore and Tyson are sick, Vaughan and Sanford are not rowing and Captain Wells has to content himself with the pick of a very much picked over class. He has about ten new men rowing whose abilities it is not at present possible to judge...
...cent but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind; and whatever may be true for the last three years, during the present year, Harvard has gained not only more numerically, but more proportionately than Yale. The same is true when we consider the past ten years, the past twenty years or the past century. What right have we to argue on the paltry data of three years? What good will it do us to pick out of a hundred years the three in which accident gave Yale a greater proportional increase than Harvard and argue...