Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following day. Differing groups coalesce or separate, cities change their allegiance from one faction to another, former leaders return to activ3e politics, the army enthusiastically supports the most eloquent speaker,--in short, the entire tern of affairs, however definite it may have been is unrecognizable shifted. From the meager reports that come through, it can be gleaned that the counter revolution is already under way, that the Army is supporting it, that Moscow is again in the hands of the Loyalists, and Petrograd about to be. But the truly significant feature is that Kerensky. Korniloff, and Miliukoff are now fighting...
...their families. It is difficult to understand why teaching should so long have been one of the most poorly paid professions, but that the tide has turned, in the university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were sent back by the cobbler, with the message that he could not mend them any more because there was not a bit of the original boot left...
...ever, except in spring, summer, and very early autumn, the Seniors are forced to complain, between chattering teeth, of the frigid atmosphere in their rooms. All day long the temperature is noticeably below the comfort point. And at about 10 P. M. even this meager amount of heat disappears. "Early to bed and early to rise,"--is this the schoolboy formula under which Seniors suffer? Or are the dispensers of warmth following a policy of economy? If so it may be suggested that Seniors will pay rather than freeze. Will those in charge recognize their duty, or is this...
When Professor Lichtenberger, of the Sorbonne, chose to give his course on "Nietzsche" he counted, no doubt, on a genuine and widespread interest here in so important a figure of modern philosophy. There is no stronger evidence that he did not find it than the meager enrolment in the course. Whatever may be the course for this apparent lack of interest, whether it be the concentration and distribution system or whether we of an American university have not the same absorbing interests as the students of the universities in Europe, it is too late now to do anything...
...evidence is not meager. A new Stadium Bridge, the Freshman Dormitories, the Germanic Museum, the Music Hall, not to speak of the Widener Library and the proposed Gymnasium, are evidences of such a development in the matter of plant; the recent change in admission requirements, and the proposed system of general examinations denote new standards in the direction of scholarship; the Press Club, the Legal Aid Bureau, and the Navy Project, may be taken as indicative of a development which is bringing into closer touch the University and the community...