Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bowl brings up a number of arguments against the project of altering the structure. In order to have the 220-yard straight-away necessary to track equipment, a tunnel must be cut through the embankment of the Bowl at the excessive cost of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars. Not only is this objection raised, but it is maintained that the arrangement would create powerful air currents which would hinder the runners and that the other colleges would therefore refuse to compete on such a track. Other arrangements have been suggested, such as cutting through both sides of the Stadium...
...College, and catalogues and reports are especially desired. It is the first purpose to collect as many books as possible about Harvard men autograph copies of works by Harvard authors, and complete files of every College magazine and paper. The second purpose is to assemble a library of several thousand volumes of the best books in many fields so that readers of the most diverse tastes will find something to interest them. The most desirable in this division are works of the standard novelists, books of travel, sport, history, reference, and current novels or works on topics of general interest...
...editor-in chief and the art editor of the "Cornell Widow" have been expelled from the university because of the questionable matter incorporated in the "Temptation Number" issued some time ago. Five thousand copies were quickly sold out, netting, it is rumored, about $2,000. The students were in good standing and expected to graduate next spring. They have applied for reinstatement...
...Percy MacKaye is to be congratulated on "A Thousand Years Ago". He had a most whimsical and unusual theme to handle and the appreciation of last night's audience showed that he handled it supremely well...
...Shubert extends n invitation to the members of the Dramatic Club to attend this evening's performance of "A Thousand Years Ago" at the Shubert Theatre. All members who wish to take advantage of this opportunity must sign up at Brentford 33 between the hours of 4 and 6 this afternoon...