Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...house has been considerably changed from the design of the first building. The main roof has been made several feet lower and the pitch reduced, leaving a nearly flat top, 44x50 feet. Three dormer windows at each end of the second story take the place of the row of smaller windows in the original plan. The four projecting balconies at the corners thus appear as towers, 21 feet square, rising above the main roof, those fronting on the speedway being made square instead of bowed as before. The float will extend the length of the building at a uniform breadth...
...various arguments against the Quincy street site, he describes the external appearance and internal arrangement of the building. No new plans have been devised and the question of a restaurant and of bed-rooms is still open. Professor Hollis closes with the observation that, contrary to first expectations, the smaller clubs are really the College element most interested in the success of the Union...
Several improvements have lately been added to the Yale boat-house at New Haven, the most important being a large new float and five runways, costing 8750. A launch named the "Scud," smaller and slower than the regular university launch has been presented to the college and will be used for coaching the secondary crews...
...launch is white with a temporary yellow funnel which will later be replaced by a smaller one of brass. She is 51 feet long, with pointed stern, two cock pits, the forward one being slightly larger than that of the Frank Thomson. She has a Roberts boiler and a self-oiling engine, large coal lockers and a capacity for carrying 250 gallons of water. Her screw makes 50 more revolutions per minute than that of the Frank Thomson and her speed is guaranteed at 14 knots. An official trial to determine this will take place in the Easter recess...
...Migration," Mr. Alden comments on the growth of the American student's tendency to move frequently from one university to another. He points out that although the broadening advantages of this movement are many, especially to the smaller universities, yet one bad feature exists in that both students and universities are, "perhaps, somewhat distracted from simplicity and directness of aim." Yet these disadvantages "Seem to be only those incidental to any progressive condition and to be greatly out weighed by the gains reaped by both students and universities." "From a Graduates' Window" comes a remarkably well-informed and vigorous protest...