Word: correspond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coaches and selects the football team? There is no "coaching system" at Cambridge. The captain picks his men, shows them a little now and then when needed, and every so often gets advice on his team from old "Blues", who correspond to our letter men. Such professional coaching as exists in England is done at the schools. By the time the men come up to college they are supposed to know themselves how to play...
...wondering where their seats are in relation to the cheering section, the football management states that camps 5 and 6 are in the center of the field on the Harvard side, while 21 and 22 are the center sections on the Princeton side. Ramps 1 to 8 correspond with sections 1 to 12 in the Harvard Stadium; ramps 8 to 18 are in the Bowl of the Princeton structure, while the sections are numbered through 26 on the Princeton side of the field...
Early last spring, I addressed a letter to the Professor of Literature in the University of Berlin, asking him to send me the address of some student in the University with whom I might correspond, the topic of our correspondence being the contemporary fields of German and English literature. In due time, I received a letter from a student to whom the professor had handed the letter thinking that he was a suitable one to carry on such a correspondence...
...plans the entrance requirements for students intending to become engineers will remain the same as those for admission to the courses leading to degrees in the arts and sciences. During the first year all engineering students, regardless or which branch they elect later, will pursue the same studies, which correspond to those now given in the freshman year of the civil engineer curriculum They include analytical geometry, calculus, chemistry, engineering drawing English, a foreign language, and hygiene and physical-education...
...interest, rentals and other charges as 15, the remainder of 10 is the surplus available for dividends, improvements or reserves. But instead of 100 units of traffic and revenue, the railroads are now offered but 80 units. If expenses, taxes and charges could each be reduced 20 percent to correspond with the decrease in traffic, the decrease in the surplus would be but 20 percent, or 2 units. Unfortunately, however, expenses cannot be reduced in the same proportion as the decrease in traffic, because such a large part of them are more or less independent of variations in traffic...