Word: size
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...examination, also, the papers of past years in that study showed the relative importance of the matter to be reviewed, and were an excellent test of the thoroughness of the review. There were, however, objections against binding up examination-papers with the Catalogue, for this increased the size and price of the book, and compelled each purchaser to buy much that he did not care for. It is proposed to avoid these objections, and yet furnish the papers to students by publishing little pamphlets, each of which will contain a set of papers upon one subject. Students can then...
...first thing noticeable about it is its size. It is a pamphlet of fifty pages, and has an index as large as our present "Bible." In it are rules about every imaginable thing a student ought not to do, and every offence is punished by a fine, - a source of revenue that would be very remunerative nowadays...
...TITUS, 3 Stoughton, is the special retail agent in Cambridge, for the heliotypes published by Houghton, Osgood & Co. These heliotypes include many choice subjects from Correggio, Durer, Land-seer, and others. Specimens may be seen at Mr. Titus's room. The pictures are 19 X 24 inches in size, and retail at one dollar each...
...aunt," said I, "look at the size of our last two classes. Does n't that look as if public opinion favored the elective system...
...Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than a being who, in addition to the pleasing peculiarities above-mentioned, has a parallelogram for a body, a square for a head...