Word: larger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been advised that the Juniors form in groups, the largest of which may contain 12 men, with not more than two men in a room; for the larger groups are given the preference in the allotment. All men who entered College with the Class of 1919 or who finish their course in the college year of 1918-19 are eligible to make application. Requests for rooms containing ineligible names will receive no recognition by the committee. In filing applications, men are asked to indicate their first preference and at least 20 other selections that they may obtain desired locations...
Coach Leslabay has called for more candidates for the University bayonet team. Last Monday members of the University were first called out for this squad, but only 12 reported. There are ample facilities in the Randolph Gymnasium to handle a much larger squad. This will insure the development of a strong University team. Practice is held regularly three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, at 3 o'clock...
...Religion" will be the subject of William Jennings Bryan's address before the Law and Graduate students in Langdell Hall tomorrow evening. Mr. Bryan will speak at 8.45 o'clock instead of at 8 as originally announced. Despite the fact that the meeting has been transferred to a larger auditorium than was first engaged, the occasion is exclusively for students in the Law and Graduate schools...
...dons, or, as we should say, the faculty, have had their incomes from all sources reduced at least one-half or two-thirds in most cases. While it is difficult to estimate situations of this sort before-hand, I should imagine that if the war continues and we raise larger armies with a reduced draft age, the attendance in the College might well drop to three or four hundred students, possibly even lower...
President Eliot the went on to show that Switzerland is a country similar to Massachusetts in size and population, having somewhat less than four million inhabitants, but it can nevertheless muster immediately an army of half a million, with a much larger number in reserve. In 1911 the number of men under training for two months or more during the summer was about 210,000. They have proved available for a first-line defence in 48 hours. There were also over 275,000 trained reserves ready for the second line almost as promptly as called for--a total army...