Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other difficulty lies at the other geographical extreme of Europe--Great Britain. That country is already part of an empire which has many of the elements of confederation--a common official language, a common system of laws for people of European derivation, a coordination of large and small units. If Great Britain joins a European United States, will that bring into the system the Europeanized communities of Canada and Australia and South Africa and the other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute...
...south end of the old History 1 reading room, four new offices have been built, leaving but a small space for the addition to the Treasure Room...
...exhibitions as formerly, but a considerably smaller floor space will be taken up by the desks and tables than is new given over to them. The few remaining tables will be only for the use of those readers who are looking over the displays, or consulting them for small references. About half of the cases will be taken out, and much more space is to be used for exhibitions. In the old room there will still be kept shelves for books which certain undergraduate courses require. The cases about the wall of the upper Treasure Room will continue to hold...
This tendency is a natural and inevitable one. Advanced graduate teaching and research have developed everywhere, from small beginnings to great achievements. The country needs these more and more as it grows to manhood. And graduate work almost of necessity turns to the great cities. The centers of research everywhere are the urban centers: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore,--New Haven too (let us give our dearest enemy his due; he has an intermediate position, by no means disadvantageous...
...alumni alike have conjured up all sorts of dire pictures of the ensuing conditions here five or ten years hence. They have visualized conditions ranging from the prospect of sending their sons to Summer House rather than Yale to the spectacle of Yale beset with a conglomeration of small social entities...