Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...small number of ballots cast in the elections of last Tuesday are a sad commentary on the spirit of the three upper classes in the College. From a registration of 276 in the Senior Class, only 56 votes were cast, showing that four-fifths of the members of that class either take no interest whatever in their representation on the Student Council or are too lazy to go to the polls. In 1921, with a total registration of 553, only 126 ballots were cast, and in 1922, with a class enrolment of 672, only 207 ballots. Added to these numbers...
...suggestion to teach aeronautical theory in our universities is strongly to the point. Lieut, Sir Arthur Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department...
...Small Size a Hindrance...
...objection to the proposed rink is its size, 62 by 160 feet. The Brooklyn Ice Palace's enclosure is 56 by 200 feet, and this was found to be rather too small in the game with Yale last year. The usual dimensions are 80 by 180 to 200 feet. Due to the small size of the proposed arena, there is some doubt as to whether Yale and and Princeton will be willing to play there...
...Germans was likened by Cardinal Mercier to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Our generation and the countless once to come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will be J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, a nation-wide movement for the achievement of this purpose has begun. This body has issued a statement which comes at a singularly apropos time for those...