Word: larger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students according to their deserts as if no intercollegiate games were involved; and that in abolishing summer ball for the future and ignoring it in the dimly lighted past she would now not merely restore some of her best athletes to their own, but would help Harvard to a larger and truer view of intercollegiate athletic friendship...
...these days of academic self-analysis, the intellectual calibre of the American undergraduate finds few admirers or defenders. Professors speak resignedly of the poverty of his background and imagination. Even the undergraduate himself in college editorials confesses that the student soul vibrates reluctantly to the larger intellectual and social issues of the day. The absorption in petty gossip, sports, class politics, fraternity life, suggests that too many undergraduates regard their college in the light of a glorified preparatory school where the activities of their boyhood may be worked out on a grandiose scale. They do not act as if they...
...Treasurer of the College announced at a recent meeting of the Corporation the receipt of gifts amounting to $155,601.74. This sum includes certain of the gifts announced by the President on Commencement Day, i.e. the gift of the class of 1890 of $80,000. Among the larger new gifts and bequests is $25,000 from the estate of William Endicott '87, the income to be used for the purposes of the Cancer Commission of the University; $23,250 from the estate of Julia M. Moseley, also for the work of the Cancer Commission in the City of Boston...
...enrolment in the Law School is considerably larger than it has ever been before. By yesterday, 751 men had registered in the entire school, a gain of 83 over last year's figures. There are 309 first year men as against 274 last year...
...have not, as is asserted, been a serious danger to the rest of the world. Rather have they been an element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national...