Word: sizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Invented: a camera which will operate at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, penetrating hazes and photographing in a single exposure an area of over four square miles, automatically timed and operated, electrically heated to prevent freezing, making an exposure nine by eighteen inches in size...
...university of the size of Harvard it is unpreventable that the progression of the various Departments should display a broken line of advance. But it is also singularly unfortunate that the departments where practical demonstration and experiment, and consequently the equipment, are of paramount importance, should be the very ones to lag, that a depressing lack of facilities should hamper the investigation of an exceptionally capable body of research specialists whose work is, paradoxically, as commercial as it is cultural in its value. The increasing need which the scientific departments feel for equipment which may keep them abreast of progress...
...will mean, if it is carried to the limit, the elimination of much that is distinctive and enjoyable in university life. But so long as the educational process is not interfered with in the individual, the real contribution of the colleges is in no danger from mere increase in size...
Such a situation in its mass and its incoherence gives food for thought, but not for regret to the graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal
...size of the individual pamphlet will be about 65 pages. It will resemble in dimensions and appearance one of the University catalogues but will have a more substantial cover. Present plans call for the printing or 1500 copies in the first edition, and of this number about 1000 will be sent free of charge to members of the class of 1932 before the opening of the next college year...