Word: larger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This suggestion, while offering some technical difficulties, as explained by President Lowell, appears to be the best of those advanced for the abolition of war. It does not advocate disarmament but preparedness, but it makes of preparedness a larger issue than local protection, for it applies it to the prevention, of strife internationally. It realizes that not only must war with one's own country be prevented but with any country if peace and prosperity are to come to the world...
...University delegation to the summer military camp at Plattsburg, N.Y., was larger than that from any other institution. Out of a total of 612 college men, 84 were Harvard undergraduates, and in the business men's section which totalled 1300, nearly one-third were Harvard graduates. The camp this summer was very successful in every particular; the usual rigid discipline and careful instruction was in order, and an unusually large number of men were recommended as commissioned officers of volunteers. The season closed with at 75 mile march which was filled with maneouvering of every description...
...Yale squad has had perhaps the most thorough pre-season work of all of the larger teams. Starting on September 6, a week before the University candidates were called aut, the exceptionally large squad has been drilled steadily and hard for three weeks. The line suffers heavily by the loss of ex-Captain Talbot at tackle and Stillman and Carter at end. With the championship 1918 team to draw from, however, these positions should not be hard to fill. Captain Wilson, shifted from quarter to halfback on account of increased weight, will be the mainstay behind the line. Guernsey...
...larger colleges and universities have fairly well established reputations. Mention of Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth brings up defined notions of what these institutions stand for and the quality of their human product. Harvard for a number of years, has been thought of definitely as a university not exactly bloodless, but at least less boisterous than some of its neighbors. It has been regarded as cloistral, its vigor somewhat stifled by--er--snobbishness...
...steel latticework tower supporting wireless antenna is located on each end of the flat runway on the roof of the building. The new aerial is as large, if not larger, than any used in the United States; it is made up of five wires stretching from the 100-foot standards above the Laboratory across Langdell Hall to Walter Hastings Hall, a distance of over 600 feet. A message has been received from Berlin, a distance of 3,000 miles, and several times stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly...