Word: therefrom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Persons of this type could without difficulty or loss, in fact with definite benefits derived therefrom, give at least a year for the necessary military training, Dr. Clapp asserts...
...which were discovered in December, 1909, and February, 1910, in the course of the excavations in Massachusetts avenue for the Cambridge subway. For a few hours the stones were to be seen in their original places after having been covered for more than 275 years; then they disappeared therefrom forever, and one more link with the past was broken. But the exact position of the stones was measured and recorded, and when the street pavement was restored, the Railroad Company caused yellow bricks to be inserted to mark the sites...
...This fund is to be known as the Francis H. Burr 1909 Fund, and the yearly income therefrom is to be used in helping deserving undergraduates who combine as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership and athletic ability...
...papers displayed some imposing sums as spent each year for obvious luxuries. The criticism attempts to explain away the suggested significance of the figures by the simple process of division; dividing the total sums spent by the number of men registered and concluding therefrom that the supposed expenditure for luxuries is, after all, but small for each individual, and explaining that the totals were obtained by multiplying the estimated expenditure of certain men by the number of men registered...
Without in the least attempting to refute such an analysis of the more evident part of present undergraduate life, for we all recognize this criticism as only too just, it seems to us that the law of averages and the conclusions possible therefrom are in this case decidedly misleading. For instance, there are a great many men in every class, of whom we never hear as accomplishing anything in so-called "undergraduate activities." They may be the men of more modest or even straitened circumstances. They come here for an education in the sense of procuring a firm intellectual foundation...