Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reward of the serious students. Like hundreds of other school catalogues, Amherst's contains a sentence stating: "The real life of the College centers in he classroom, in the relationship between teachers and learners." Distinctive about Amherst's statement is the fact that it is to a large extent true...
...Annandale-on-Hudson as its academic standards. Finance--or lack of it--is an important factor in restricting the scope of all the college's undertakings. Many buildings are in a state of disrepair. New dormitories, erected shortly after World War II, are either "barracks" or "dwelling units." The extent of student activities and the facilities available in teaching courses are also adversely affected...
...Harvard College is not a four-year liberal arts institution in its own right but an integral part of a greater university system. To a large extent the nine graduate schools of this system have swallowed up the College and today there is little undergraduate life which they do not color...
...history has any Republic form of government, nor any Democratic form of government, been established and made to endure . . . except by men who came from the Caucasian and Germanic races . . . The men and women of the Confederacy held these traditions and principles in their purity to a much greater extent than the peoples of a number of northern states who had been subjected to the influx of immigration of people of lower standards...
Even though he has lost to a great extent his undergraduate awe of Harvard, Bate still feels a healthy respect for the University, and cannot quite reconcile himself to his position. For some years, he admits, he felt like Huckleberry Finn at the mansion of the Widow Douglas, afraid that anything he touched or tried would bring a reprimand from authority...