Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defiance of superstition or in deference to colonial tradition that President Coolidge invites 13 guests at a time to breakfast parties? It is neither, but simply that 13 is the number of guests that can be seated comfortably around the White House table without putting in extra table-leaves. Last week there was a series of breakfasts at which the guests were groups of Congressmen 13 strong. Most notable was the Tuesday morning breakfast, attended by Senators sharing President Coolidge's antipathy toward the Jones shipping bill. For all the breakfasters' palavering, the bill passed the Senate that...
...group points out that the Stadium has never been large enough it contains only 22,000 non-temporary seats; that even had the Stadium been large enough for the Harvard of 1903, it certainly is not large enough for the present Harvard--enrollment has practically doubled, so has the number of graduates and the teaching staff, while the resources of the University have been multiplied five times, and the expenses of the Athletic Association have increased ten-fold; that intercollegiate athletics are now thoroughly endorsed by the Faculty; that the backbone of every endowed educational institution is its long-suffering...
...admitted that the graduates are entitled to two seats to the Yale game, there seems to be no way of denying that a Stadium of 50,000 capacity is inadequate. Harvard's College graduates alone number some 25,000, and Yale's graduates must also be invited if Harvard's graduates are to see the games more often than every other year. This alone, when the undergraduates of the two institutions are included in the total, renders the present Stadium or even one with the open end closed, seating 50,000 or so, inadequate. Nor does there seem...
...fall of 1924, the student's participation in the campaign consisted more in torchlight processions and belligerent and meaningless statements to the press that in cool consideration of the issues involved. One debate at the Union was the only serous event which brought any large attendance, and a number of speeches at the Liberal Club completed the educational side of the campaign...
These comprise only a small number of the 500 copies printed, the bulk of the edition arriving Monday, when those not already subscribed for will go on sale. Five hundred copies of the Register have been printed, 325 of which have already been sold through subscription, some of which are being mailed to purchasers outside of Cambridge today. The remaining 175 copies will go on sale Monday at $2.50 apiece...