Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work will probably be issued in three volumes, each about the size of the Quinquennial Catalogue. There may also be issued a one volume abbreviated edition for popular consumption. The first two volumes will deal with the narrative history of the College from its beginning to the present day, and will be written by Professor Morison. The third volume will be composed of monographs on the history of the different departments and graduate schools during the last 50 years, and will be written by the older members of the Faculty...
...plan includes asking all those who view the statues to cast a ballot for the one thought to be the best. The twelve frontiers-women will now tour the U. S., votes being taken everywhere on their value as art. The final winner will be reproduced on an heroic size scale and erected on the Cherokee Strip near Ponca City in Oklahoma at a cost...
...problem is not recognized as seriously at Cambridge as it seems to be at New Haven, but the small college plan discussed last year is an indication that the question of unwieldy size is not to be disregarded. There are few people today who would deny that the advantages of large scale production are somewhat dubious in the economics of education...
...city institution, Dr. Lewis had taken (in 1923) that executive ability which had previously, in Wartime, put him in charge of the national commission of patriotic societies and, later, of the Savings Division of the U. S. Treasury (to sell Thrift Stamps). To Lafayette, an institution one-fifth the size of George Washington but with a more notable academic tradition, Dr. Lewis would take that scholarship, personal and exemplary, which made him a success as headmaster (1906-13) of Lake Forest Academy (Lake Forest, Ill.) and which the Encyclopaedia Britannica recognized when it enlisted him as a contributor...
Such has been Raphael's fame that all his pictures have been taken away from little Urbino just as he was. Not one remains. Nor is there is a peddler-millionaire in Urbino with 5,250,000 lire to spend in bringing back even a small-size Raphael of questioned authenticity...