Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fully aware of the tremendous obstacles in the way of such a program of reconstruction. Yet it is not economically impossible. More efficient use of even the present facilities would help much. Few realize the amount of time, money, energy and eyesight now wasted by professors in preparing and dictating lectures, by section leaders in conducting large and cumbersome discussion groups, by readers--those most pitiable and degenerate academic parasites--in grading blue books. But even though this dead loss were turned to good account, more instructors and tutors would be necessary. Intimate personal contact between students and faculty...
...Congressman Douglass has so much passion on tap why not use some of it for the benefit of East Boston. Why not blast the Elevated for the way it laid tracks in the Bennington boulevard, destroying the beauty of a highway that cost $750.000? Why not roar at Mayor Nichols for cancelling the taxes of the East Boston Land Co, to the amount of one hundred fifty-two thousand dollars? Why not condemn the outrageous bathing facilities for the little children at Wood Island, where the bathhouses is on the edge of a dirty pool, a breeder of typhoid...
...morning". The statement does not sound startling in itself, but it does show the utter futility of two great universities trying to keep at arms length from each other for an appreciable length of time. Harvard and Princeton have officially severed football relations for an indefinite period. Concerning the much-discussed break there is apparently much to be said on both sides. The irony of the situation is palpable enough, however, when we consider such instances as this...
...roof of much less expensive materials will now be superimposed upon the trusses of the second floor and with the completed developments, the gymnasium will at least include complete facilities for fencing, wrestling and similar indoor activities as well as increased locker equipment...
...proposed construction relieves the burden of both the architect and the Athletic Association since the expense involved in constructing a temporary roof at the former stage of operations is very much reduced. The $700,000 previously subscribed provided for construction up to the first floor, and included locker room facilities and the swimming pool...