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Word: disproportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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The Harvard Monthly enters on a fifty-eighth volume with unfortunate emphasis of Mr. Moyse's immoderate panegyric on Clayton Hamilton. Its would-be maturity of vocabulary coupled with "superfluent enthusiasm" and disproportion in criticizing the Drama League and elaborating a pen-picture of the sentry, are symptomatic of the...

Author: By Percy W. Long., | Title: CONSCIOUS MATURITY IN MONTHLY | 3/4/1914 | See Source »

In the affairs of the College the most significant movement during the year was that looking toward a modification of the elective system. It has been truly said that the opportunities for education in our universities are now enormous, and that the immediate problem before us is to bring the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL'S REPORT | 5/2/1910 | See Source »

Religion is not coextensive with ecclesiastical institutions, nor with traditions, nor with belief in supernatural beings, nor with faith alone; it does not consist of such philosophical doctrines as the doctrine of God and immortality: religion grows out of the consciousness of a disproportion between our destiny and our powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Boutroux on "Intelligence" | 3/18/1910 | See Source »

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