Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Therefore we need some general substitute, not only for written examinations, but for the special tests, already suggested, which may soon be diminished in many courses, owing to a corresponding change in the nature of these studies. Moreover, these substitutes must be in each case fitted to the particular character...
Yesterday afternoon a fair-sized audience assembled in Sever 11 to hear the first lecture of the course on "Health and Strength." Judging from the first the course will be of great interest and value to all. The doctor spoke in part, as follows: "My plan is, after two or...
It is certainly too early to say just what will be the organization and sphere of this student committee. We venture, however, to predict that it will not be an Amherst Senate to have charge of the discipline of the college. We want a conference committee, and a committee which...
"The criticism is often made that a college education tends to unfit young men for much of the hard work, and many of the practical duties, of every day life. While the facts justify an absolute denial of the above statement, yet it is true that many matters of practical...
"It can confidently be affirmed that the proportion of non-collegiate men in the lists of authorship is greater to-day than it was in that indefinite period known as 'before the war.' Making a list hastily of well-known authors, setting their names down as they occur to us...