Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first boating now stands: Stroke, Rowe; seven, Stevens; six, Gray; five, Kernan; Four, Fowler; three. Talbot; two, Richards; and bow, Pirnie. The Coxswain is still undecided, as the position is rotated between Fox, Kinoy, shortlidge, and Snow. Kinoy holds the edge as far as weight is concerned, but Shortlidge is perhaps the most experienced...
...appointment policy should exclude from its ranks every advocate of social change," the Committee says. Even stronger is this remark: "It is not enough that dissent from prevailing views should not count against a proposed appointee; it should count in his favor, if the dissent has intellectual weight, and is inadequately represented in the "Faculty...
...final section comes back to the original key with a triumphant and stirring motif. In its glorification of academic freedom, it is the liberal spirit epitomized. Extra-mural activities and opinions are not to be disregarded. They are to be given special weight--but far from being discriminated against, the radical and unorthodox viewpoint will be courted. For Harvard must have diversity of opinion within her ranks. Harvard must have her communist...
...Krogh pointed out that the oxygen intake among animals varies enormously according to bodily activity. Per kilogram of body weight, the sluggish mussel uses only 22 cubic centimetres of oxygen per minute while the busy bee consumes 17,000 cc. Man, whose activity rate varies considerably, takes...
...Refugee children, even though they were not starved in Germany, eat enormously, eight or ten times a day, but gain little weight. One boy begged to be made a cook's helper so he could eat all day. Mrs. Fincke's explanation: food is a form of security. When she asked a little girl why she ate so much, the child replied: "I must eat against...