Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library gains some 5,000 volumes yearly by purchase, and about the same number by gift, and although the two batches in which the Slavic books were received were the only large additions, yet the smaller donations have brought the number of volumes up to the average. These books were on various subjects, so that no department or collection has made any marked advance over the others...
...accommodated in the museum. Such an ungainly number as now exists has many attendant disadvantages. Much time is always taken for the assembling of students at each lecture hour. And, which is a still more serious difficulty, that personal relation between instructor and student which is possible in a smaller course is almost entirely absent...
...seen the country between these places only from the window of a passenger coach, and who wishes to acquaint himself with the environments of each locality, no better means is afforded than the bicycle. In the smaller towns they rarely meet a wheelman from more than 250 miles away, consequently they are very free to impart information to one who has ridden farther. Never was I shown more hospitality than when on this novel trip. When I started, I was unused to any kind of physical exercise to speak of, so that I could not ride fast nor long...
...tends to lower rates.- (1) Rates were lower in 1884 under pooling system than ever before, except during rate wars: N. Y. Ry. Commission Report of 1884, I: 77.- (c) It checks consolidation and monopoly.- (1) The powerful companies cannot, by cutting rates, ruin, and then absorb, the smaller roads: Pol. Sci. Quar. '87, p. 388.- (d) It tends to lessen the construction of parallel lines.- (1) New roads, obtaining only a fair share of traffic under pooling system, cannot compete with old established lines.- (2) Parallel lines are usually constructed on wild-cat schemes, with expected profit through rate...
...entrance to the main hall will not be direct but will be, as formerly, through the smaller wing...