Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...startling fact that out of the large number of men who will return to college next year only about 200 have as yet signed up for the University Summer Camp. There is no doubt that the small size of this number is largely due to the same deadly habit of procrastination that impels an undergraduate invariably to hand in a thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when...
...race did not start until the arrival of the crowd from the Yale-Harvard baseball game, so that it was 6.45 o'clock before the crews were started. For the first mile the race was close, with Yale holding a small lead despite the fact that the University crew was rowing a pace from two to four strokes higher than...
...industrial revolution brought with it large-scale production and great centralization of industry. Its whole development has meant the sacrifice of small business and the elimination of competition. The ordinary laborer today lives through a daily routine of minute detail. His life is but a process of repetition of some small industrial function. And on the other side, the great monopolies of production have grown up and have seemed to make the system of private property but an instrument of the fortunate. It is under such conditions that social discontent has demanded a new order. With the increasing power...
...none other than to send to every past and present member of the university in active military or naval service, or serving abroad in one of the recognized forms of auxiliary service, a small medal--a sort of pocket-piece or lucky penny--on which appears the name of it holder and a few words testifying to the university's appreciation of what he is doing for his country. The cost of each token is only about thirty cents. A coin of the same character was carried by Minnesota men in the Spanish War, and proved a token of association...
...Cross drive at the University is lagging in a disgraceful manner. A scant $2,000 is all that has been contributed in the last four days. Most of these donations have been in small amounts of five dollars or less; very few undergraduates have given to the full extent of their means...