Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he believes the idea of such a memorial is current among many University graduates. He adds that it has been the source of much surprise to visitors to the University that a building of such dignity as that of Memorial has, up to this time, played such a minor part in the daily life of the undergraduates...
...last time Mr. Richards found himself relegated to a minor part and went ahead quietly to play it for all it was worth. As usual the sartorially perfect Nedell displayed all the ham-actorisms with which his work is invariably distinguished. Mr. Collier revelled in a heavy bit, to which he added many an extra ounce of weight. Mr. Collier will play Hamlet some day, if they...
...extremely artistic ones. Here, too, is a new arrangement, and the dormitories are now grouped according to the years in which they were built. For the rest, it is the essential Album, the record of a Harvard generation, of which the Senior alone has the true appreciation. There are minor defects, but not to be quibbled over. And if there is one thing on which the Committee is to be especially congratulated it is the fact that the 1925 Album is dedicated to Dean Briggs, who will retire at the end of this academic year; Dean Briggs, "whose friendship, sympathy...
...contest last year at New Haven was an overwhelming victory for the Crimson, whose players sold text-books and slide rules to make the journey. Before the encounter with Yale here during commencement week, this year's team has arranged several minor games. H. T. Dunker '25, the manager of the P. B. K. team, announced last night that he is seeking encounters with other sandlot teams and solicits challenges...
Improvements for the telegraph and for Dr. Bell's telephone of 1875; the electric pen or telescribe, and the mimeograph; the megaphone; an instantaneous vote-recording machine which Congress rejected because "one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought...