Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This treatment of walls and ceilings to eliminate noise, however, has passed the experimental stage. Besides the Chicago offices, there are at least seven other similar installations--to say nothing of the theatres, churches and courtrooms where hearing conditions were bad until enough absorbing material was introduced to correct them. Correcting the acoustics of a theatre is a parallel operation to eliminating noises in an office; in both cases it is the echoes or reverberations which make the trouble and which must be destroyed...
...topic however great its interest to the few men to whom it has a special appeal will draw largely if it is a highly specialized field of application. As a result Senator Hollis spoke to seventy-five men and a hundred empty chairs; and Admiral Chadwick spoke to a similar audience. That is injustice to the men perhaps. At least it is forcibly calling their attention to a state of affairs that seems worse than it is because of the size of the room and the number of empty chairs. Granted that famous men are scarce, may the subject chosen...
...prospects of success to have the faculty recognize the philanthropic work done by students in and about Boston as credit toward the college degree. Several hundred men are engaged each year, under the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, in social service work in boys' clubs, settlements and similar institutions. It is proposed that the interested departments (social ethics, economics, sociology, etc.) should undertake the supervision of this volunteer service, and make it the equivalent of a certain amount of the work usually done in courses in those subjects...
...well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would be justified in asking a little variety. The two bits of verse, best characterized as pleasant, are neither important enough nor distinctive enough to relieve the sameness of the prose. At least, oh Advocate, one real love affair to make things interesting...
...several events of importance have occurred in the fields of scholarship and athletics. On Saturday, March 21, Sigma Xi Society gave its nineteenth annual banquet in Memorial Hall. Over 100 guests were present. On Monday the general Faculty announced the adoption of a plan for a system of honors similar to the English and Canadian systems. It will go into effect in the fall of 1915, and will affect the Junior and Senior classes. Another important announcement made on the same day was that of the recommendation by the Senior Council, with the approval of the Faculty, of an Honor...