Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next year the number of Student Advisers, which totalled 70 this autumn, may be cut into less than half with 25 advisers reporting at Cambridge on the day that the Freshmen register, the "welcome committee" in each Freshman dormitory, holding office hours from 12 to 2 o'clock for a week, and eating in the Freshman dining halls, will function as it did this year. A large number of Freshman made use of the advisers in the Common Rooms last September, and the Committee feels that this feature of the system is worth retaining...
...fact that a sufficiently large number of cases may be obtained and adapted to college courses is shown by our experience at Harvard. Several years ago we began to gather actual problems from Boston and Cambridge, and later from cities in other parts of the country. A few of the cases were secured from printed documents, . . . but the bulk of them were obtained first-hand from public officials, bureaus of municipal research, and civic organizations. Altogether about 150 cases have been collected. Each of these cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves...
Later he retired to devote his time to writing. "Thunder on the Left", his most popular book, won him his reputation as a writer of colorful fantasy. His earlier books, including a number of volumes of familiar essays, grouped under such titles as "Pipefuls". "Shandygaff" and "Plum Pudding", and brief whimsical tales like "The Haunted Bookshop", "Parnassus on Wheels" have won him a large circle of admirers...
...between the University and Michigan, which have been scheduled for the next three years. A baseball game is schedule for May 5, 1928, and a recent agreement has provided for a home-and-home football series in 1929 and 1930. No decision has yet been reached as to the number of men who will journey to Ann Arbor for the track meet...
...lecture rooms, exact duplicates of the lecture rooms in the present building. In addition it will contain the Dean's and Librarian's offices, and several Seminar Rooms. The new West Wing which will be 114 feet long and 58 feet wide, will have on the first floor a number of professor's rooms, cataloguing and periodical rooms...