Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Driggs 2nd, Yale '27: "The degree to which Harvard is over-organized and tied up in red tape is amusing beyond words, to say the least. The Bursar's office, for example, at Yale, is operated by two men and no more than three stenographers, but the size of the same office in Lehman Hall would make it seem as though the Bursar and his army of assistants at Harvard were running the United States. As for red tape, a fellow can hardly get across the street without showing his Bursar's card...
...jersey of Grange viewed from behind by spectator and player alike, the polo mallet of Devercux Milburn, the horseshoes that were first under the wire at Churchill Downs, the bats of Ruth and Gehrig, and Bill Tilden's racket. Harvard students will notice that no college of size is unrepresented but their...
...however, in the general tenor of their minds. For no gathering of like size preserves the geniality of a football crowd, immediately let out of the stadium. Surprisingly enough there is comparatively little boisterousness. There is a composure which is almost marked enough to be termed bovine; there is content. The tramp of tens of thousands of shuffling feet, the clink of colas in the Salvation Army blanket, the dolorous wheeze of the organ man, the shouts of the game extras, the smell of popcorn and frankfurters--these are what the artist designates as local color. And the fact that...
...than of himself and his writings. He spent some time strolling through the Yard, declaring himself fascinated by the old buildings and the air of quiet which pervaded the lawns and paths. He evinced a keen interest in the Fogg Museum, and also praised the Widener Library for the size and magnificence of its collection. It was the Business School, however, which most attracted M. Maurois' attention. Having been a wool manufacturer himself until he took up writing ten years ago, he could intimately appreciate the facilities offered at the splendid new Baker Foundation...
...Rittenhouse, for 27 years foreman of the enameling department and responsible for the fine finish of Toledo Scales; of many another. They tell Toledo's advantages: third largest railroad center in the U. S., a municipal university, a greater percentage of home owners than any other city of like size, an art museum endowed with more than...