Word: larger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assistants. On Wednesday a very distinct message was received from Berlin, a distance of over 3,000 miles, and on several occasions stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly. The new aerial which was just completed during the recent holidays, is as large, if not larger, than any employed by any other University in the United States, and 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...
Such an undertaking will prove much larger than the dispatch of the first Harvard unit in March for three months' service in the American Hospital at Paris. The new detachment will require 24 instead of 12 surgeons, and will have charge of 1050 instead of 450 beds. Whereas the French unit is attached to a private American institution, the English corps will serve in a government hospital, since there is no American organization in England...
...Book, which will be larger than ever before, will be out about June...
...Seniors, accompanied by the product of ten months hoarding, and a fifteen piece (much larger than ever before) band, will march off gaily from the Yard at 7.30, to the tune of "Tipperary" (by special request). Every Senior who survives this afternoon's scenes at the Widener Memorial Library, should be on hand to have a chance at the free refreshments and big prizes...
...regretted that the editorial section is not larger--it consists in but this one comment. But the number as a whole is worthy of the Review, although it is by no means up to the highest standards which the magazine is capable of attaining. But it shows that the new Board is wholly alive and is keeping up the radical policy which is the raison d'etre of the Review. Only in future issues it should omit the phrases about the "sighing 'cellos' and other such commonplaces, not to mention the too frequent use of the first person singular...