Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attacks are notably prompt and clear, even by professional standards, and the too-often neglected endings are no less exact than the attacks. The singing of this chorus achieves apparently quite as a matter of course, two of the less easily attainable goals of all choruses, large or small, amateur or professional--smoothness and clearness...
Some of the clothing collected will be sent to the war sufferers in Europe. The greater part, however, will be distributed among charitable institutions in Cambridge and Boston, while a small quantity will be sent to the South. The magazines are to be distributed among hospitals and reading rooms of houses of charity. The following articles are especially needed: text-books of all kinds for the Phillips Brooks House loan library, and particularly these used in the larger courses, such as History 1, Government 1, and English 28; articles of clothing, such as sweaters, shirts, hats, gloves, underwear, neckwear...
...Reserve Officers' Training Corps, as organized at the University and other Eastern colleges, plays but a small part in the complete preparedness movement. The different institutions are organizing and preparing themselves along those lines in which they can be of the greatest service. Thus Technology, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and the great laboratories in numerous other universities are open to the Government scientists to make such experiments as they wish; thus the Massachusetts Agricultural College is organizing the farmers of the state in order that the coming food crop will be the maximum in size; other institutions are giving...
Owing to the small number of aviators now in the Government service, the graduates of this school will have an exceptional opportunity for advancement. It is expected that from 60 to 80 men will be graduated during the five months that the school will be open. After finishing the course at Squantum, they will take a course at Pensacola, Fla., before being enrolled as officers in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps...