Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...three or four of last year's second string men will have to do the bulk of the work. There are several new men who are fast and heady and who played good preparatory school football, but who are too light for the college game. A large number of small preparatory school football stars entered Bates this fall but most of them are very light. Among the most promising are A. Nevel, B. Nevel, Swift, Shattuck and Curtin, a new man who may get a backfield position...
...During the first hundred and seventy-four years of the existence of Harvard University, it was fostered by the Colony, Province, and State by contributions to the cost of buildings and small appropriations of money toward its annual expenses. Since 1810, however, Massachusetts has made no direct contributions to Harvard; so that the University has relied exclusively on students fees, the income of endowments derived from private persons, and gifts for immediate use. It appears from the experience of the last hundred years that these methods of support, combined with the privilege of exemption from taxation, can be trusted...
...Yale University crew won from Harvard on the Thames on June 19, in what has been termed the most remarkable rowing contest ever seen on American waters. The margin of victory was so small that stop-watches could not measure it. The judges at the finish were in doubt as to the actual amount of Yale's lead, placing it between three feet and a few inches, but were agreed that Yale had won. The crowds in the observation trains and on the water were divided in opinion until the final announcement of the referee...
...second floor is the great main reading room which is larger than Bates Hall in the Boston Public Library, and which offers seats for 375 students. The third floor will furnish space for a book-bindery, photograph room, and the various departmental collections, and also a number of small rooms for seminars, advanced courses, and private study. The total capacity of the library will be 2,500,000 volumes, about the same as the New York Public Library, while its reading rooms will have 500 seats, accommodations for 350 advanced students, and 80 private rooms for professors and visiting scholars...
...longest and most notable prose piece in the July number of the Monthly is "Leaf, Somebody's Son" by A. Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...