Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This at once brings up the much discussed question of the so-called German peril in Brazil. Although no official figures are available as to the size of the German colonies in southern Brazil, it has recently been estimated by impartial investigators that the Teutonic population is between 250,000 and 300,000, on the face of it an ominous figure. But the fact that the colonies have no access to the outside world except by rail-roads controlled by French and English capital goes far towards nullifying the danger. Add to this the fact that the Germans are surrounded...
...evening at 7.30 o'clock. Professor Johnston will explain the different forms of service open to University men, showing how there is an opportunity for all to serve. He will also take up the compulsory system, showing how impossible a volunteer system is for raising an army of the size that is now used. He will also discuss man power and practical efficiency. After the lecture he will answer questions...
...Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and the great laboratories in numerous other universities are open to the Government scientists to make such experiments as they wish; thus the Massachusetts Agricultural College is organizing the farmers of the state in order that the coming food crop will be the maximum in size; other institutions are giving special courses in military medicine; the Tufts wireless station is offered as a central wireless station for New England; the students at Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke are engaged in Red Cross work; and Western Reserve has already formed an ambulance unit of more than...
...Western Union Telegraph Company has enlarged its Cambridge headquarters to more than twice their former size. It now has a spacious well-equipped office, including individual glass-topped writing tables. The operating force has also been greatly increased and now four telephone operators, two Morse operators and two bookkeepers besides the manager and squad of ten messenger boys make up the day staff. There are eight people on the night force...
...mildly shocking to discover from the report of Harvard's librarian how serious he considers the university's need of more funds for its library. The splendid new Widener Memorial building scarcely prepares one's mind for a cry of poverty. And the great size of Harvard's collection, now numbering nearly two million books and pamphlets, does not suggest deficiency. Later reflection, however, calls to mind how serious must be the demands which arise from this very fact of the collection's size. The Widener Library has given suitable housing to the main store of Harvard's books...