Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...finish of the two principal stories is to be of painted plaster. The woodwork is reduced to practical minimum, and brick walls and fire stops prevent the chances of a fire spreading. The outside walls are hollow, to assure dryness...
...Chicago University will be conducted on a new plan by President Harper. Four quarters each composed of two terms of six weeks, cover the entire year, and the student chooses any two terms for vacation. Courses extend through one quarter, and are classified as major, with a minimum of ten hours work a week, or minor, with a minimum of four...
...possible injustice to Yale caused by our cancellation of the Princeton-Harvard provisional arrangement, we felt that it was only fair to couple with the settlement of the difficulty of this year an arrangement by which diplomatic negotiations with all their attendant evils might be reduced to a minimum hereafter. We pointed out that such an arrangement was only a formal recognition of the existing custom by which Yale and Harvard meet in all the sports every year; that both Universities were left with a free hand as to making engagements with other colleges; that, if Yale objected...
...subject. Every stroke entails a certain amount of work. It is axiomatic that the crew covering the greatest distance in, say, 21 1-2 minutes, with the least outlay of strength will be likely to reach the finish first. Aiming then at the maximum result with the minimum exhaustion, the point somewhere between the two is to be sought for if a crew would be invincible...
...great changes in the School of Arts at Columbia. It is proposed to alter the course by increasing the electives in the junior, sophomore and freshman years. The object is to provide as well as possible for a liberal education by reducing the compulsory studies to the minimum, and by so arranging the electives that the student will naturally incline towards devoting himself to specialties. If these proposals are carried out, the School of Arts will be able to produce a most attractive academic course. The proposals originated with the University Council, and if they are accepted by the Faculty...