Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard has moved a step farther away from the theory that a man may become educated merely through passive exposure to education. The university has always avoided the rigid requirements set in the past by American colleges upon regular classroom attendance, but now a still larger measure of freedom is to be granted in Cambridge in this respect. Hereafter, not only honors men but all seniors in good standing may make even more liberal use of their own discretion in determining how many lectures or recitations they will attend, without being subjected to any disciplinary penalty unless they make gross...
...first two groups on the Rank List, were first given the privilege of attending classes and lectures at their own discretion. This included the right to cuts both before and after vacations. Later the Dean List was enlarged to include group three of the Rank List. This was a larger step in the extension of freedom, as the third group has consistently included many more than the number of students ranked in the first two classes. Subsequently the opportunity for Freshmen to gain Dean's List privileges was granted and first year men who had gained the required grades after...
...attendance at the Dartmouth game was far larger than at the early games last year. This is attributed to the fact that H. A. A. ticket books will admit to all basketball games held in Cambridge this year
...good many Americans today do not know that the morning star and the evening star are the same heavenly creature and that her name is Venus, the reason may be that our calendar is based upon the career of a larger and more obvious body called the sun. An ancient Maya of Central America and southern Mexico had not this excuse for ignorance concerning the loveliest of the stars, because the calendar devised by his ingenious priests was a Venus calendar; any knowing citizen of that remarkable civilization was aware that five Venus years were practically equivalent to eight...
...pays $25,000 a year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption...