Word: limited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...growing. Throughout the garden, all the plants are labelled, even those which are used for decorative purposes being provided with clearly-written labels giving the name and the locality from which the species comes. Altogether the number of species now cultivated in the garden is somewhat over the provisional limit set by the Overseers' Committee on the garden, namely five thousand. More than one-half of all the outdoor species are American. Of course, foreign species are well represented in the beds devoted to economic plants, near the pond, and in the greenhouses. While there is no special endeavor...
There are also a few Tree tickets in almost every section. The limit to each purchaser will not be fixed until the committee ascertains from the men in line on Friday at 1.30 how large the demand...
...Chapel service of Saturday, May 19, will be devoted to the memory of the students drowned on May 13. The service will begin as usual at 8.45 precisely, but will be prolonged a little over the usual limit. By the kindness of President Eliot I am authorized to say that the College bell for the 9 o'clock recitations will not be rung on Saturday until the Chapel service is over...
...same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit, to go beyond which they believe would seriously endanger the social life. For ourselves, we think that it would be unwise even to exceed the proportion of twenty men to fourteen seats...
...there was room for them, and there is no reason to suppose that this proportion will be largely changed in the future. Within a few years, therefore, there will probably be two thousand students who will wish Memorial Hall board or an equivalent. Since thirteen hundred is the utmost limit for Memorial under any circumstances, it is bound to be inadequate. While the discussion of the closeness with which this limit shall be approached has its place, the vital question is as to how the much larger number of unaccommodated men are to be cared...