Word: larger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what his interests are, he would be in a far better position to choose. He should be encouraged to meet more members of the Faculty. There are about half a dozen professors and instructors who meet students informally at definite hours in their homes, and their courses stimulate a larger number of undergraduates than do others. At present, some men go through College without talking to a single instructor and, know by sight, only those with whom they are obliged to take courses...
...holding this campaign for clothes and books almost directly after vacation instead of before it, the Committee hopes it will be larger than usual...
...alliances of colleges of corresponding size for athletic purposes and thus doing away with the so-called "practice" games between large and small institutions, on the theory that these contests tempt the smaller teams to violate the ethics of college sports in order to foster strength to beat the larger institutions...
...Harvard men who have lost their lives in the war, that of a building containing a large auditorium seems to me, from all points of view, the best. It is hardly necessary to dwell on the need of such a building. The auditorium could be used for all the larger University gatherings, for Class Day and Commencement exercises, for symphony and other large concepts, and for larger theatrical performances...
Realizing the necessity of putting the profession in a place where it would gain the respect of larger numbers of the people who make up the lowlier walks of life and of making it more difficult for them to be imposed upon by those who little claim to be called lawyers, the profession during the past fifty-years has put on foot various reforms. Probably the greatest of these are first, the reform in procedure, second the raising of the standards required for those who desired to become members of the profession, and lastly the legal aid movement...