Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...designing an organ careful consideration is necessary for the size, shape and physical conditions of the auditorium which it is to fill, and the particular place which it is to occupy. The tonal scale was fixed in accordance with these conditions, and the danger in such a large organ of making the tone oppressively heavy and overpowering successfully avoided. Yet the life, buoyancy and moving power of the mass of tone has been abundantly maintained. Those in charge of the work declare that the aim of furnishing the Chapel with an instrument worthy of its environment, broad in scope...
This plan of canvassing the graduating class was adopted last spring on a smaller scale in connection with a scheme to establish social service committees in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and other large cities throughout the country, with the purpose of indicating to college graduates opportunities for philanthropic work. The aim of the project which is being adopted this year was outlined by O. F. Cutts L. 03 in an address in the Union last spring in which he spoke of the value of changing the generally favorable attitude of college men towards social service into one of active...
Detective William J. Burns of Chicago, will speak in the thing Room of the Union tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock Detective Burns spoke here last spring on the McNamara case. His broad knowledge and long experience in the prosecution of graft on a large scale makes his talks highly interesting. His subject for tomorrow has not yet been announced...
...regular trade editions. If the experiment is successful, the directors of the Co-operative hope to increase the list of special editions and in the course of time to be able to supply at greatly reduced prices all text books now used at the University on any considerable scale...
...which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...