Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bassett went on to explain the necessity of regulating the height of buildings in crowded districts of large cities. Buildings that will bring the maximum of light and air into the streets and to the occupants of the building itself and which will leave open spaces above the ground level for the use of both the owner of the building and his neighbors are the type that are needed today, said Mr. Bassett...
...scale of rents at Yale runs slightly under that at Harvard, thanks to a special fund which was saved out of the cost of building the Colleges. The minimum rental is $110, ten dollars more that that at Harvard, but the maximum is only $400 per man, nearly two hundred below that at Harvard. For food, the College resident pays $8 for twenty-one meals, fifty cents less than in the Houses. Yale has copied Harvard in fixing the prices for fourteen or seven meals per week at a much higher proportional rate. Another plan devised at Cambridge and copied...
...Zoology 3, the average student spends 13 hours per week in outside preparation including laboratory. The maximum number of hours spent is 17, the minimum 11. The average time spent by a member of this class on one other course is 4 hours...
...Zoology 5, the average student spends 15 hours per week in outside preparation including laboratory. The maximum number of hours spent is 22, the minimum 11. The average time spent by a member of this class on one other course is 4 hours
...stated meetings of their class; presumably, a serious student would expend two hours a night besides, in preparing of the recitations and in doing the reading; an exceptionally hard worker might devote three hours five times a week to the study of his French or German. Thus the maximum estimate of time required for these courses is twenty hours a week. There is however, one great difference between the time spent in the languages and the similar effort made in the sciences; the student who takes German B or French B and passes, receives credit is granted but a single...