Word: scales
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Preparations are being completed for a new archaeological expedition to Central America, and the exploration of ruined cities in that region, begun by the Museum several years ago, will be renewed on a somewhat different plan and a more extensive scale...
President Hadley of Yale has announced that architect's plans are now being considered by the corporation for the centennial memorial building which Yale plans to erect before 1901. It will be somewhat similar to Memorial Hall but on a larger scale. It will contain an auditorium and dining hall, and, in connection with it, will be office buildings for the president and the executive officers of the university. Over $400,000 have already been raised, but $750,000 are needed...
...institutions where strength tests are accepted as supplementary evidence of the ability of students to enter as competitors in athletic contests the following schedule will serve for a scale: Candidates for university crew and football team and weight throwers are expected to make a total of 700 points; candidates for university ball nines and track and field events, class crews and football teams, gymnastic, wrestling and sparring contests, a total of 600 points; and candidates for university lacrosse, cricket and tennis teams, class baseball nines and class track and field events a total of 500 points...
...removal of the Medical School to a new site with the possibility of a hospital as an adjunct, are to be expected in the not remote future, though in the latter case, the means are not yet at hand. The establishment of a "Retiring Allowance Fund" on such a scale as to enable the Corporation to fix a retiring age for all officers of the University, is a cause which President Eliot thinks most worthy of generous assistance...
...hardly to be disputed that the University has never made a dramatic production on so large a scale, and that a French tragedy has never before been so well staged in this country...