Word: size
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well be compared to what these newly chosen officers have to face. For the war has made 1921 the only class in the University where activities are carried on as they were in peace times. The rest of the classes have been cut down to fractions of their normal size, athletics are on a miniature scale, and the result is that the Freshman reigns supreme. He is featured in the newspapers and with each inch of print comes a corresponding increase in headware...
...suggestion has been made that in war time when colleges are reduced in size, less attention to the qualification of applicants for admission might be given, with a rigid elimination later of those who cannot keep the pace, or who do not prove capable of doing the work well. That sounds reasonable, but anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace...
Last October the Ensign School was moved from the M. I. T. to the University and at the same time increased in size from 50 to 150 students. One hundred and fifty-one men started the course at the University last fall, and of their number 122 will be graduated...
...used by graduate students mostly as a dining hall, the rooms above being rented. When the New Lecture Hall was built several years ago, Foxcroft was moved to No. 8 Oxford street. Since the Naval Radio School, stationed in many of the College buildings, was increased in size this fall, the building has been used as living and dining quarters for the petty officers, and the belongings of some of these men were damaged by smoke and water...
Every essay offered for the prize must be legibly written or typewritten upon quarto size paper which can be bound. The title page must bear an assumed name and the writer must turn in a sealed letter containing his real name inside and the assumed name on the outside...