Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the Pictorial Supplement of the CRIMSON makes its first appearance in a new form. Enlarged, and with the pictures appearing in large individual plates rather than in a composite makeup, the paper will be more attractive in appearance and less confusing than former issues have been...
...buttery" now obsolete, used to be in Harvard Hall. According to one account, "as the commons rendered the college independent of private boarding houses, so the buttery removed all just occasions for resorting to the different marts of luxury intemperance and rain. This was a kind of supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery and in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which for the most part, was not included in the commons fare...
...Canal. Last winter he quietly went down to Panama to see how the big ditch looked after 20 years. His talk was his first publication of his impressions, which were, chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend...
...Along with the more subtle purposes for which the new remedy is designed goes the important practical one of giving the student reading of a general sort to supplement the lectures. A great real is to be said in favor of this plan. At present the lectures and the reading cover approximately the same ground, and a somewhat complete knowledge of one, combined with an incomplete knowledge of the other frequently enables a man to pass a course with a grade, for example, of C. In the future, when the student finds that lectures and reading do not actually parallel...
...attending the Radio School, a special department begun to aid the government in teaching the uses and operation of radio. At the close of the war, when the Radio School was discontinued, the building, after being out of use for a short time, was turned into a cafeteria to supplement Memorial Hall, which contained a dining hall...