Word: whole
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives us the striking fact that the courses most largely taken, which altogether involve about twice as much work as one student could perform in four years, comprise only one-eighth of the whole amount of instruction offered by Harvard College. The "other seven-eighths," he observes, "although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the wants of a comparatively small but precious minority, and secondly to meet the higher...
...both sides of the water will lead the way in a subsequent year to a race with one of the two great English university crews. There is no question that if this could ever be brought about it would be an event of the greatest interest. Whether on the whole such an international race would be a desirable addition to the present list of intercollegiate athletic contests is a matter for consideration. Certainly the expense, no matter how quickly and eagerly loyal graduates and enthusiastic students would raise the money to defray it, is against the idea. Then...
...after all, the policy exemplified in the administration of the Scientific School, though due none the less to the efforts of its officers and professors, has taken its spirit from the policy which has governed the whole University during the last twenty-five years. Though in this period Harvard has been the recipient of many gifts, the period is characterized rather by the business-like disposition of existing means and the careful development of every department as far as those means would allow. In all this there has had to be a ruling sense of proportion, a weighing...
...latter proves in this case to be of the great scientific and practical value which is predicted for it, the work done by the Harvard laboratory in the direction of further development will be watched with the greatest interest, not only by members of the University, but by the whole country...
...then taken out and then developed with rodinol. Soon the part which had not been shielded by the glass slips began to show dark, and in a very short time the development was completed, the boundaries of the exposed part of the plate being well defined for the whole length of the plate. The image was then "fixed" in the ordinary...