Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sheer rapid growth few institutions in the country, and assuredly none in New England, have a record comparable to Boston University's. In a single year enrolment has almost doubled. B. U. has been adding new departments with considerable regularity, and the result is that today it has about 5400 students. These figures include the registration in the popular night courses given in the College of Business Administration. This fall the university has opened a college of secretarial science, a school of education and a department of religious education and social service...
Much structural steel and iron work remains to be done, and there has been unexpected difficulty in arranging the piping system for the rink, but except for this delay the progress has been rapid. According to present plans there will be balconies on both ends and on one side, which will give the rink a total seating capacity of nearly...
Most sport lovers are aware of the rapid growth of tennis in the past decades, but nothing could bring it home to Harvard men morely clearly than the fact that the Fall University Tournament had about twice the number of entries that the National Singles Championship had last year. Such a body as the Student Council of a great University ought to be thoroughly conversant with such matters, and that it was not so informed seems unusual. The arguments for raising tennis to a University sport are several and to the point. There are some against it. Where the preponderance...
...instructors in the various subjects of study. The council and the creation of special official committees to work out with the president the selection of men for the three new University offices established under the reorganization, and the schedule and ranking of professors for the new salary increase, represents rapid progress toward reconstruction ends, and brings into their settlement an experienced and very acceptable faculty personnel...
...very probable," said Mr. Charles C. Lane, Director of the University Press, "that at the close of the present printers' strike in New York, the strikers will find that many of the publishers employing them will have adopted the new method of printing introduced by the Literary Digest. The rapid improvement which each new issue of the Digest shows, and the comparative cheapness of the process, makes this seem likely...