Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LOWELL.LOST.- On the first day of the week, probably in the gymnasium, a very small ring with several keys, among them a key to a locker. Finder please return to E. C. Pfeiffer, 22 College House...
...desire to use reserved books is very considerably lessened under the present system. With a good degree of justice students are unwilling to assume the responsibility of them, particularly when they desire to consult several different works at a time, or when the urgency of the need is small compared to the trouble which would be necessary to satisfy it. Thus there can be no doubt that much more intellectual work would be done were our library lighted during the evening. As it is now we are deprived of what we want and even of what we deserve and need...
...Society for the College Education of Women contains many interesting facts and statistics concerning the work and growth of the Annex. So fast has been the growth that Fay House in now not large enough to accommodate the classes. The building contains a reception room, a lunch room, a small conversation room, two reading rooms (both together inadequate), a laboratory of botany, two small apartments for the librarian and secretary respectively and four lecture rooms. The laboratories of Physics, Chemistry and Zoology are in other buildings. The office of the secretary is already too small for the rapidly increasing business...
...really is. But for a reformer to devote himself to all reforms would be a senseless task. He must choose some single thing which he thinks needs reforming and do his best to bring about the desired reform. He must not work alone, however; he must join a small body of men, who have the same objects in view, and their combined efforts are bound to bear good fruit. Behind these small bodies there must be clubs and associations ready to give aid and influence to the more active reformers...
...should have one side of the field instead of an end. But this would be manifestly unfair. A coach holds about twelve men on an average, but the space taken up by one would accommodate six rows of eight men each. or 48 men. Supposing that twenty coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred and sixty men. Seven hundred and twenty men, therefore, would be disappointed in their seats-a sacrifice which the men who are going in coaches ought not to expect. In behalf, then...