Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more definite place in the University. It was more and more recognized as the natural social centre of the whole University rather than a club, with an exclusive membership. During the past year the improvements made in 1904-05 have been well extended, and better worked out in detail. This more complete carrying out of the innovations begun in 1904-05, together with such changes as placing the dues on the term bills improvements in the dining room and library, and the adoption of a new constitution, has made the Union stronger and more useful than it ever has been...
Professor Nelson pointed out in great detail the difficulties in political life which beset the country and those which Mr. Curtis had to face. Under the present regulations, continued the speaker, there are over one hundred and seventy-two thousand persons, in the classified service list who are subject to civil service examination, but there still remain some seventy-five thousand offices throughout the country which are the spoil of the Senate...
...observation and I know of no book 'more sure to enlarge the mind of a thoughtful boy or girl. A later book, to be greatly prized, is one whose rather inadequate title is "The Neighbor", and whose chapter. "The Problem of the African", while liable to some criticism in detail--as is almost everything yet written on that difficult subject--yet lays down this manly conclusion, coming from a Kentuckian (p. 149) "A fair assessment of the situation leads to the conviction that morally he (the negro) is hopeful material for use in our society." If as some seem...
...detail the plan for using the collection has not yet been worked out, but the general idea is to have the books kept in cases to be provided in the Phillips Brooks House and loaned to students who are not able to buy all the books needed in their courses. A small deposit will probably be required, to be refunded when the book is returned. The committee hopes to secure enough books this spring to make a serviceable collection. The library will be made ready during the summer for use at the opening of College next fall...
...Agamemnon" offers ample opportunity for spectacular effect. There will be numerous supernumeraries of diverse description. Two chariots, each drawn by two horses, will be used. The actors will not wear the mask nor the high boot of ancient tragedy, but the characteristic rich dress will be reproduced in considerable detail...