Word: small
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first baseball practice of the year was held yesterday afternoon in the cage. Five small battery squads were given light work and the two large University squads, and the Freshman squad were coached in stopping grounders and in easy-throwing. No batting practice was held. Coach Frantz, Captain Clarkson, Keeler and Chesbro had charge of the men, Keeler and Chesbro giving special attention to the battery candidates...
Thus far a very small number of Seniors have been measured for caps and gowns. Less than 100 men have signed--a considerably smaller number than at the same time last year. The Class Day Committee urges every Senior to be measured before March 2. To men measured before this date the charge for cap and gown will be $5.50, and delivery will be made on or before April 12. To men not measured until after March 2, the price will be $6 and delivery will not be made until some time...
...order to make the work as successful as possible a small force of skilled miners will be employed as instructors to assist the students in the actual operations. The school will be called the "George Crocker School of Practical Mining," as Mr. George Crocker of New York has given $12,000 to cover the expenses of the camp for the first year. The success of the camp this summer will determine whether it will be continued in ensuing years...
...school committee should have no more than ten members; preferably less than that number. Such a small board would be an efficient and compact body, with a sufficient variety of opinion, with added effectiveness for executive work and the working out of sound policies. The schools should not be representative of sectional interests, but should have as their unit, areas larger than Cambridge or than Boston, such as the metropolitan district, which forms a unit for the park and sewerage system, and should be unified for other purposes. The members of the board should be experts, as is the case...
...action toward improvement of the schedule of lecture hours. The chief evil of the present system is an injurious interference with the liberty of choice of the individual student among the courses nominally open to him, on account of congestion of most of the lectures within a small range of hours. The attempt to use the hour from 7.45 to 8.45 has failed; and a motion to give each full course two morning hours and one afternoon hour was defeated by a large vote, in spite of the fact that it would put all courses on a level as regards...