Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early last March the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College approved one of the most radical educational experiments projected in any of the larger American colleges in recent years. The plan, which received official sanction, at that time, called for a cessation of classes during two periods of the academic year--the two and a half weeks between the Christmas vacation and the mid-year examination period and the three and a half weeks preceding final examinations. These periods were to be known as reading periods, and their adoption was to be optional with the various departments of the University...
...laboratory will consist of two buildings, the larger facing on Oxford Street, and the smaller occupying the rest of the block behind it. These buildings will be connected by an underground passage covered by a one story corridor. Work on building A, the main structure facing on Oxford Street, has progressed to the second, and in some places third floor, while the walls of building B have as yet risen only to the first floor...
Another, and perhaps more common device, is to prepare two strings of beads with the father's full name. If twins or larger multiples are feared, extra strings are made up, with figures 1, 2, 3, 4, added. Then at the time of delivery, and before the umbilical cord is cut, one string is put around the mother's neck, the duplicate (or duplicates) around the baby's (or babies'). Such bead strings cannot slip over the baby's head...
...fact that the Employment Bureau was reorganized on a larger scale a few years ago seems to indicate that the University was of the opinion that working students were not undesirables, but were, in fact, assets. The new system under a new head promised more and better opportunities for a greater number of students. Finding a job, at best a hard task, was to be made easier, and the annual reports of the Secretary for Student Employment--if figures are to be taken as trustworthy--have shown that the Bureau has rendered valuable service...
...good as it used to be--and it never was. Granted that Booth once trod those boards and that the Stupidities of 1927 now makes merry in the hallowed footsteps, the discerning must remember that such is not only a local condition. Other cities, Detroit for one, which are larger than Boston receive worse treatment from the nimble hands of the booking agent. And one worthy, if sporadic, stock company, a Repertory Company-- which is only a rose by any other name--and some in different permanent groups are always lurking in the background...