Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a widespread opinion among educators as well as laymen that our larger colleges and universities do not do their jobs as efficiently as they might. Various reasons are advanced for their alleged failure. Some say our huge schools are intellectual filling-stations where culture may be had in any given quantity or quality regardless of the student's gas capacity. The remedies suggested are many, but among the more popular is the one of breaking these inert masses up into smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that...
...Harvard Glee Club will go to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, returning through the larger cities of New York State, on its annual spring tour, it was announced, last night by officials of the Glee Club...
...next day Mr. Hoover caught his second sailfish, five pounds larger than the first...
...equally strong, if less sensational, bull stock was Sears Roebuck, mail-order house larger even than Montgomery Ward. In 1927 Sears Roebuck earned $5.95 per share. It sold on Jan. 16, 1928 at 82⅛, or approximately 14 times earnings. The 1928 earnings were $6.28 per share, but on Nov. 14 Sears Roebuck sold at 197½ (1928 high) ; again almost exactly 31 times 1928 earnings...
...practice his hobby in a dark-room fully equipped with the apparatus that he has been forced to forego during his residence in the Freshmen Halls, and he has at his disposal a Press Graflex to use for his personal as well as his CRIMSON pictures. By far the larger group, however, come out, unskilled as photographers, to increase their interests and broaden their friendships; and, if successful, they emerge feeling they have at last found their place in their college world. The fruits of their accomplishments they taste for the next three years, for if they so desire, they...