Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...casual observer it would seem that a rearrangement of the lockers with a view to better sanitation and ventilation might greatly mitigate this evil. Crowded into small galleries, lockers are jammed tightly together, unventilated, dust-covered and filled with malodorous clothing. It does not seem too much to ask of the gymnasium authorities that the windows be opened and the galleries aired as much as possible, and that the lockers themselves be rearranged in order to secure adequate ventilation. Or even, if this last consummation be unattainable, they might be cleared out and cleaned at frequent intervals. Their present state...
...Since a monopoly is the foundation of successful conbinations, all business men, followed by small investors, are trying to get in on some monopoly, or special privilege. The risk may be larger than in ordinary business, but the profits are enormous. So we are swamped with speculative securities, which take capital away from productive industries to tie it up in speculative, and so unproductive enterprises...
...During the first half the Freshmen played well together. In the second half each side scored one goal. Wingate and Heron excelled for their respective teams. The line-ups: HARVARD 1914. BRAE BURN. Adams, Clark, l.e. r.e., Fels Sortwell, Stevenson, l.c. r.c., Heron Devereux, r.c., l.c., Hickey, Small Woods, r.e. l.e., McKay, Marston Wingate, c.p. c.p., Penhallow Willetts, q. q., Pierce Carnochan, g. g., Bray
...Canal. That work represents one of our greatest national assets, one of the greatest feats to be credited to our nation throughout our entire history. Enormous sums of money have been spent, and yet there is practically no taint of corruption in connection with spending them. American officials on small salaries have gone down to that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there...
Following this, the speaker showed some slides of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The markings of Mercury and Venus are peculiar and very different from those on Mars. The markings on Mars are known as canals which meet in small spots called oases. These Canals are not filled with water, but are merely fertilized sections like the valley of the Nile...