Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final articles in the series, which the Crimson is printing on the larger fields of concentration are published below. These articles, written by undergraduates who are distinguished for the maturity of their Judgment and their high scholastic standing, are intended to present to the Freshmen, now faced with the problem of choosing a field of concentration, the possibilities various fields hold from a student point of view...
...financial backer, Edsel Ford); after laying in 200 smoke bombs and a supply of potassium permanganate (purple when moistened) to be used as targets for his drift-indicator (compass) when flying over snowfields; after discussing landing-skis with a Canadian expert and buying a second extra set, larger than any, for the Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North Pole by flying in 400-mile stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base on Cape Morris Jessup. Greenland, taking with him only...
...many respects that report suggests a similar attempt to maintain the traditional facilities for the acquisition of culture and the development of intelligence while yet admitting the existence of progressive and often anti-cultural tendencies on the part of the university world to include itself within the larger world of modern civilization...
...Meiklejohn divides his platform into ten units, the first of which concerns the size of his projected college. And here in the particular is the first parallel with the plan of the Student Council's committee. For he wants his college to be and to remain no larger than two hundred and fifty in enrollment, a desire, which, as is now rather well known, those who drafted the Harvard report possess. Furthermore, he suggests that the college must be near a large city or university whose laboratories and libraries it can use. The idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges...
Leaving New York the play started on an extended tour of several of the larger eastern cities. Among other places that the company stopped at were Yale and Princeton. In both of these colleges the piece was hailed not only as an excellent hit of entertainment, but also as a true picture of life at Harvard...