Word: subtraction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan proposed a few days ago by the executive committee of the Tennis Association, for the reservation of four courts on Jarvis field to be used by the sixteen best players of the college in a league match, deserves to be adopted. While this plan would subtract from general use a rather large proportion of the good courts, the loss would be more than counterbalanced by the advantages gained, and especially the stimulus to better play. It will become an object not only to win future tournaments, but to make a creditable showing in them; and thus many...
...those examined surpassed him in weight, while the complement of this, or 20 per cent. failed to surpass him. If, however, his line where it intersects the line of measurement, fall on the line at the right or left of one of the numbered perpendicular lines, add or subtract 2 1-2 per cent, unless it fall outside either the figure 10 or 90, in which case, but 1 1-4 per cent. should be reckoned...
...curriculum required and which would in no way have been irksome or unprofitable to them. If we could keep before our mind's eye some definite set of subjects which ought to afford a broad, liberal education, such perhaps as a well-devised curriculum would show, and subtract from and add to it certain courses, according to our personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond...
...assets, and also to reduce the debt very largely, instead of increasing it. The current expenses of this year will be much less than last year, if the managers come anywhere near their estimate. Add the sums $2172.72 already spent, and the estimate of future expenses, $4211.73, and then subtract the bills paid and unpaid, left from last year, $2054.91, and $470.00, the share of the class crews towards the running expenses and service at the boat house, and the result is $3859.54, or over $1100.00 less than the figures recently given, $4975.00, as the actual expenses of the university...