Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...price is fixed too high for the general public can they complain if their audiences are small. It should be frankly admitted, I think, that there are many men who cannot afford the price asked to admit to a Glee Club concert. If the societies make a larger profit from high-priced tickets and small audiences than they would from low prices and large audiences, their course is very reasonable. But why cannot they try the experiment of tickets at 50 cents and enthusiastic audiences of 800, instead of $1 seats and critical audiences of 200 as at present...
...permanent class crews. If follows as a legitimate conclusion from the Crimson's argument, we think, that the establishment of class nines should be undertaken, in order to furnish well-trained candidates for the 'Varsity nine, as well as for the equally important purpose of affording to a larger number of men a constant chance for sport...
...enjoyed. Every one should attend both as a matter of pleasure and of duty. If the concert is to be a financial success, it is necessary that a readier support be given the two organizations which labor so faithfully for the entertainment of the college, and that a far larger attendance result than is assured thus far by the sale of tickets...
...Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than in the larger ones; and in seeking to stand apart and form, as it were, an aristocracy of universities, the latter are separating themselves, not only...
...subsequently adopted again in a more complete form. The development of the elective system and written examinations has gone on side by side, the latter being necessitated to a high degree by the former. When lectures began to take the place of recitations and the courses became larger, it was found necessary to abandon the old plan of marking upon recitations. Thus it will be seen that there has been a decided move in the right direction, and it is not wholly outside the range of probability that some system of marks will in time be developed which will...