Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to adjust to the new space, which is two-thirds the size of his current spot, Humphreys says he will concentrate more on sheet music--and this precisely what customers say will keep them coming...
...order to become a chapter, Schott said the colony needs to meet 11 requirements regarding membership size, academic standards, community service and other criteria. the Harvard colony has met those conditions, according to Justin E. Porter '99, one of the founding members...
Additional data presented at the Committee on House Life meeting also showed an increasing trend in the size of blocking groups, particularly those with the maximum number of 16. House masters and College administrators have long worried about this upward trend, but these figures finally confirm those concerns. In particular, officials worry that the trend will stymie the College's attempts to create gender balance in the Houses-a goal the Crimson supports...
...take as active a role in House-specific activities as students from smaller groups, we feel that such integration is the burden of the House themselves and not of the students. Last week's announcement should not prompt the College to limit student liberty by curbing blocking group size. Instead, this statistical evidence proves to the House masters and tutors that their duty to involve students in House activities is greater than ever. There simply will not be the same level of House-involvement as there was pre-randomization unless a concerted, tangible effort is made to bring students...
...problem with blocking groups is not their upward trend in size or their unbalanced gender composition. Instead, it is the nebulous conception of a blocking group in itself. Ideally and for the most part, a blocking group should be a group of close friends and potential roommates. Rarely should it be an entire social circle. But the hazy purpose of blocking groups is again not reason to restrict students' ability to choose with whom to live throughout their college years. Rather, it is reason for the Houses, upperclass students and first-year proctors to clarify the purpose of blocking groups...