Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come another phenomenon that has accompanied them of recent years. As the number of students graduated shows a steady increase, the peri's of "mass-production" in education become apparent in many journalistic offices and there appears a succession of editorials "viewing with alarm" this development. Last week the size of the graduating class at Columbia University called forth the editorial in the Providence Journal printed elsewhere on this page...
...editorial is fairly representative in the losses it mentions as due to the growth of the size of colleges. All of them are qualities much to be desired in college life and which few institutions would willingly do without. They are the things the "old grads" remember with the greatest tenderness when the last memory of what they learned in courses has long since been forgotten. But what of the primary function of the college--the education it is intended to provide? Nothing has yet been evidenced to prove that this quality is affected one way or the other...
...athletes must go abroad, however, there seems to be a compensation in that they will probably bring back goodly portions of the laurels with them. America has such insuperable advantages of size and abundance of material to draw from that, much to the regret of many who would see a more equal division of the spoils, it is more than likely that her unbroken string of victories will be continued. But the thrills of the contest will be as strong as ever, the tourist army will have a new objective for its interest, and the defeated competitors can look forward...
...usual standard by which the worth of a library is determined is that of number of volumes, and in comparing mere numbers it is often lost sight of that size is but one of a library's requirements. No less important is the proper proportioning of the collection and the inclusion of old and rare works thereby made accessible to scholars. Widener Library has held for some years the title of the foremost college library and the fifth greatest in the world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years...
...late Mr. Pierce fancied troutfishing so keenly that he had the produce of his fish-hatcheries and nurseries graded by size and put into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take...