Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The argument of his address President Eliot thus concluded and summed up: "Finally, I step beyond the strict limits of my subject to urge the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts, on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education...
To realize this reform would, he declared, necessitate a change in educational methods, which must begin at the bottom, with the preparatory schools and academies. It involves an early differentiation of studies. Not all these subjects, each so great in itself, can be mastered thoroughly by a single individual. There...
The New York Times has presented a criticism of President Eliot's theories as advanced above, which seems to us so much to the point, that we cannot forbear subjoining it to the report of the address itself: Even if the fact be as President Eliot states it, as to...
"While the resolution seems less objectionable than some of the preceding ones we would like to call attention to the fact that it is asserted that a race is not harmful in proportion to its length, but that on the contrary the stroke rowed in the longer races is less...
The proportion of Harvard students and professors among the audience at the performances of Irving and Helen Terry has been very large. This goes to prove that educated men appreciate good acting and patronize it.