Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be fitted up as a new reading room with more airy alcoves, better tables, and easy chairs. Between the present ceiling and the roof there is a vacant space of fifteen feet. This ceiling will be torn down, so that the new room will be at least as high as the old. The lighting, too, will be greatly improved, as the old ground glass will be taken out and larger panes of plate glass substituted. At night the reading room will be open and illuminated by incandescent electric lights. A stair case will lead up through the new stack...
...Pierson '82 S.; vice-president, E. H. Lockwood '88 S.; recording secretary, W. T. H. Howe '93 S; corresponding secretary, Professor H. S. Williams '68 S.; treasurer, H. A. Bumstead '94 S. It has been decided to allow men in the academic department attaining in scientific studies the required high stand, to be eligible for the society...
...which the different class crews are able to procure satisfactory food during the season of strict training, suggest the need for some such saving arrangement as a cooperative training table. The prices at which alone the men can be accommodated at separate tables, are in all cases too high for the quality of food which is furnished; not higher, perhaps, than those who board the crews are entitled to ask, but higher than the crew managers should continue to pay if cooperative boarding could reduce the amount. The class crews are not self-supporting, and it is only fair...
...topographical peculiarities of New England and consequently afforded more variety in human interests and human development. The effect of the glacial movement of the soil was also good, making it of a more enduring character. Undoubtedly all these conditions went toward making the New England type of man as high as any in the world...
Other subjects which will be discussed at the conference will be the maintaining of a high standard of requirements for the degree of Ph.D., the granting of degrees in absentia, and possible annual conventions of graduate clubs...