Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...records of The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports there appears, during the year 1887, the statement that steps should be taken to increase the size of the Hemenway Gymnasium. An addition was made to this building in 1895 and ever since undergraduates have been asking for more indoor athletic facilities...
...wide lottery betting upon it. At the end of a Derby race it is generally discovered that some very obscure person has suddenly won a considerable fortune at very little risk. Such knowledge encourages people to bet on the following Derby. Thus Derby sweepstakes perennially increase in number and size...
Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
...Hearst's editors took care to point out that the Hearst modification contest had attracted more than three times the number of entries which were submitted last autumn in William Crapo Durant's enforcement contest for the same size prize...
Elections to the Senior Societies at one time meant "recognition" of leadership and distinguished performance in the undergraduate world, plus character, and for that reason were "honors" so recognized by the Campus at large. But a change has come. The great size of the Classes since the War (running to over 500 men), the rise of the Junior Fraternities as social clubs and the mixing of all Classes in class-room work, have been subtly and steadily changing all this, so that the character of the Senior-Society elections--and hence their importance on the Campus--within the last...