Word: tend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sophomores maintained that to continue the secularization of education would abolish the good as well as the poor religious schools. Also the measures would antagonize that part of the people who desire religious instruction for their children. Moreover the measure is an extreme one and as such would tend to excite the inflamable French temper...
These facts are limited to a single year, but so far as they go, they tend to show that the product of the public school has more character and power of work than the product of other schools. It is probably true that the public school boy has stronger inducements to exert himself than other boys have, but that is one of his advantages which is likely to serve him well to maturity and beyond...
...University last year, excluding members of Radcliffe College and the Summer School, there were 10 deaths, a rate of 2.34 in 1000. In 1900 the death rate among males twenty and thirty years of age in the city of Boston was about 9 per cent. These figures would tend to show what a great reduction in the death rate may be hoped for in civilized countries from the increase of general intelligence, the development of medical science and the enforcement of wholesome conditions of life...
...these suggestions, two tend to limit the power of judges at trials, the first providing that the six best men shall be chosen instead of the final team of three; the second, that past work shall be given weight, to some degree, in the retention of men at trials, and that the coach shall be present as advisor to the judges...
...further work until the Monday following the close of the Christmas vacation, when regular practice will again begin, and another cut will be made in the squad of candidates. A fair amount of team play has been developed for so early in the season, but the men still tend toward individual work. The forwards fail to make sufficient use of the sides of the rink, and do not follow back with the puck fast enough, relying too much on the strength of the defense. There is considerable carelessness in passing, but the shooting is very good...