Word: proof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been made to the line-plunging game of former years. This is largely due to the fact that the backs are all fast, clever dodgers, who show up to the greatest advantage in an open field. A shifting new-style variety of play can therefore be expected, abundant proof of which was given both in last Saturday's game and by the fact that all practice throughout the season will be held in secret. All the regulars, with the exception of DeWitt, are now in the line-up, and in spite of a considerable slump during the middle...
...notice in the March number of the Graduates' Magazine a reincarnation of the obsolete theory that the proof of the intellectual superiority of the public to the private school is to be found in the undoubted fact that in college a large percentage of public school men get first and second group honors, whereas a small percentage of private school men are similarly honored. The fact of the percentages I do not question; nor, for present purposes, do I even deny the scholarly superiority of the high school. But I do join with all who possess more than a meagre...
...grammar school boy lies the burden of proof to show why he should go on to high school, and on the high school boy lies much more heavily the burden of proof to show why he should go on to college. But 90 per cent of the private school boys go to college as a matter of course, whether they are intellectually negligible or not. All they need is an allowance and a passing mark in the entrance examinations. And so, serious and trivial, stupid and bright, they all herd in together. Of course they will not stand as high...
...pointed out an important argument which has escaped many previous writers. This article should be brought to the notice of those who are interested in the subject, for it shows that mere statistics are misleading. We agree with the writer that the theory is obsolete which claims that "the proof of the intellectual superiority of the public to the private school men is to be found in the undoubted fact that in college a large percentage of public school men get first and second group honors, whereas a small percentage of private school men are similarly honored," and we believe...
...mass of work which is now being done with no material end in view, but only out of a spirit of confidence in immortality is sufficient proof that never before has there been so much nascent interest in the immortal life. The social utopia is varied in form, and it is necessary that all who desire to bring it about should be tolerant of the views of others...