Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...majority of the eastern colleges, and especially the endowed universities of the East, have experienced very moderate gains in the numbers of students enrolled, whereas the state universities of the West have increased greatly in size during the last few years. This seems to indicate that students are no longer as willing as formerly to go far from home to college. This tendency is being combatted by Harvard and other large eastern universities by offering large scholarships to men in far removed districts, but as yet this effort seems to have had little effect...
...waiting list at Memorial, though slowly decreasing in size, still contains about a hundred names. As matters stand now, a person who signs off will not have an opportunity of returning before a month after so doing...
...being of service to all registered clubs in the University--a larger percentage of which are territorial clubs. To facilitate the work- ing of this committee as well as to provide a "handbook" of information for outsiders the committee last year published the University Register. Due to the size of that undertaking and to the other work of the committee, the Register this year is published by a separate organization, while the committee is concentrating its efforts particularly on the Date Book and registered clubs...
...years has been only 61,065, the above figures show a remarkable development in the part year. The College Library, including Gore Hall and 36 special reference collections, aggregates 1,053,506 volumes and pamphlets, as against 1,017,494 in 1911. Since 1840, the Library has doubled in size every twenty years...
...week later, Princeton won another easy victory, defeating Syracuse, 62 to 0. It was again the visitors' weakness rather than Princeton's concerted strength which was responsible for the size of the score...