Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee was appointed Monday to begin examining the needs and details for construction of the dormitory, Jordan added. Committee members include Jordan, chairman ex-officio, Mrs. Henry A. Murray, Miss Mary Small, Dean of Residence, and Richard W. Thorpe, business manager of the College. This committee will meet regularly and hand a statement of needs to architects by the end of the year...
When students go inter-Housing in the evening, they have most likely forgotten the morning wisdom of their instructors. But at lunchtime, when they have just quit classes, they may remember some small parts of the lectures. They may even want to discuss them. Unless the classmates live in the same house, their aim is frustrated; there is no inter-House at lunch...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...appointment system is very simple. In 1939 the Faculty determined the "historical" size of each department. The exact details of the process are shrouded in mystery. "Historical" size depended to a certain degree upon size at the time, and to a small degree upon number of students and concentrators. Endowments played a role: for instance, the Department of Semitic Languages and History had two chairs endowed for over $118,000. Although the department then offered only nine courses for a total of 38 undergraduates and graduates, to throw out one of the professors would have meant giving up completely...
...rest of the College--the Natural Science and Humanities--operates with much small courses, and therefore much more personal attention. But which came first, the chickens the egg? Are Social Sciences courses inherently more adaptable to large lecture halls of other courses? Or is it merely that the great popularity of Social Sciences and the operatively small variety of courses of automatically make Social Sciences course large...