Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some years ago a number of people interested in gardening asked the Corporation to conduct the Garden for horticultural objects, offering to pay the expenses involved, which the Corporation was glad to do so long as the cost was thus defrayed. After a while the Committee became weary of raising subscriptions, and last spring it was decided that in view of this fact, and of the comparatively small scientific value of horticulture to the University, the Garden had better be used for scientific purposes. The direction of the Garden has, therefore, been transferred to a member of the Department...
TIME has recently announced that it will limit itself to 80 pages until 1931; thereafter I suppose "the sky will be the limit" to advertising. I am one of those who is overfed with advertising and have cancelled my subscription to a number of magazines and publications which force advertising into the reading pages and insist that the reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force...
...each of these gatherings, to which all members of the University are invited, there are present a number of professors and their wives, for the purpose of making contact with students in a manner social rather than educational...
...There are on the stage now a number of players who have one or the other of these qualities, but the number of those who possess both is small. But when you get an actress who has both-well, she is an actress...
...comes from aunts and uncles of boys who they think just may be in Harvard, and if so, where do they live; all this expanded into a story telling much life history!" Just then the telephone rang and Mr. Dahlquist was sent searching through the files for the telephone number of some much sought-for Freshman