Word: larger
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Should the number of manuscripts submitted be not more than twenty-five, the decision will be given in a month or six weeks; if a larger number is received, a proportionately longer time will be needed. Immediately after the decision, the Prize of $500 will be paid to the author of the successful play. This payment will not be in lion of any royalties. A contract with the author on a sliding scale of 5 per cent., 7 1-2 per cent., and 10 per cent., and guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance, will...
...Harvard Clubs, whose delegates meet in Buffalo tomorrow for their annual two-day business session and outing, represent an organized alumni backing more powerful than that possessed by any other university in the world. Banking, the professions, and all branches of business and trade in all of America's larger cities will be represented in this gathering of Harvard men. And from the University's viewpoint, the most significant thing about their meeting is that it has not been called together to discuss the business, banking or professional problems of the nation, which, as a body of representative Americans...
Tonight's gathering in Phillips Brooks House marks the close of the work of the Association during the past college year. But in a larger sense it means more. The men who have been contributing their time and service to the many and varied subsidiary organizations are to meet for a good time in the House of the parent association. It is an opportunity for those who have been devoting their interest in a special field to meet on a common ground many other undergraduates and alumni who are actively working along different lines but with the same ideal...
...thousand, nine hundred and twenty men of American universities have given their lives in the great war, of whom, the University, with 297, or nearly three per cent, of the teachers, graduates, and former and present students who took an active part in the great struggle, has lost a larger number than any other institution. The figures, which have just been compiled, are not complete, as men are still dying of wounds suffered or diseases contracted during the war. It is safe to say that the whole number of those who have been killed will be close...
...percentage of American college men who gave up their lives in the Civil War is much larger than that of those who made the great sacrifice in the present war, although the total number is much smaller. The University's percentage of 11.2 in the war of secession is more than eight per cent, greater than the present rate, but only 1,232 students took part in that struggle, of whom 138 died...