Word: widener
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...some new intellectual leadership, of a supreme nature, might be of service to the undergraduates? All the branches of the subject are with reference to such service. Writers for the prizes are invited to consider whether the present cost of education might well be lowered, whether inexpensive education would widen the usefulness of Harvard, and whether the introduction of a larger number of intellectual students, of the old fashioned kind, would help to the end in view? It is understood that one of Harvard's larger leaders gave New Lecture Hall to the University, and the query is whether...
...basic purpose of these insignia is to increase the number of a man's friends among his fellow classmen. The last part of the career of a class is certainly the most difficult of all times to attempt to widen a man's acquaintance artificially. At best, it can only result in a bowing acquaintance with a score or so of men who you had no idea were members of your class. Moreover, a class has become definitely sifted into groups by Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely...