Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Brinton is thoroughly consonant with the tendency of our age to view all men sympathetically. Modern historians cease to expect a great deal from human nature; they permit much greater play to the elements of Caesar and Croesus in mankind. Since men are what they are and not what they aspire to be, such an historical methodology is doubtless more scientific...
...Phillips Brooks House, an interest both solidifying the members of the group and stimulating their friends and classmates to follow their initiative in such volunteer service The committee, therefore, is a more articulate expression of the freshman class than the Union Committee. Its functions are broader; its importance greater because of its direct contact with all freshmen through canvassing and because of the value of the work it promotes...
...collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House committee is far wider and the general result in satisfaction repays the initial effort many times over...
According to persistent critics, the maladies of the Department are the same as those which afflict, to greater or lesser degree, the whole college organism. Feasible combinations of abilities seem to be double-decked at best, and the real "triple-threat" man as rare as an autumnal leaf in spring. Potentially the choice may seem ideal, but in actual experience limiting factors, such as the amount of the instructor's time, the sum of his energy, and the direction of his main interest prove almost insuperable. The fear, simply expressed, is that the tide is running strongly away from excellent...
...utilitarian, surveyed with satisfaction the concrete results of the Revolution, wrote panegyrics on its heroes, and supported Walpole, its perfect representative, in office. Yet the student of politics finds nearly the whole period of Walpole's ministry torn by bitter party and personal antagonism; to him. Walpole seems even greater as a kind of political duellist, always outwitting a pressing throng of foes, than as an enlightened national financier. Professor Laprade, in "Public Opinion and Politics in Eighteenth Century England", has shown that a study of the controversial journalism of the period throws much light on both aspects...