Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University have declared their opposition to such a step and, as a result, the Alumni may be limited to one seat for the Yale football game. It is to be hoped, however, that the Alumni, who through their representatives, the Overseers, have turned down the proposition of a larger stadium, will accept this enforced limitation without complaint...
...expense will have little effect on the numbers. Now the requirements for a good dance are a good hall and a good orchestra. Memorial Hall would dampen anyone's enthusiasm. Why not have the Prom at some attractive ballroom? If the Gaydon Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive the waning interest of the Juniors in their one big unified social endeavor. Sincerely yours, Philip Donham...
Even if permission is granted for its presentation, however, the play will not be given until some time in February, according to Leatherbee, who also announced that in all probability it would not be given in John Hancock Hall, but in some larger Boston theatre...
There is no kinship in the University at Harvard, as there may be at Oxford. The College undergraduate does not share a community with the Law or Business School student because they are all Harvard men. What he does share with these others is the sense of a larger community wrought by no more tangible bond than the common search for knowledge. Where Oxford is a fellowship of a number of groups, each sufficient unto itself, Harvard is a fellowship of a number of individuals, each free to make...
Gannett, too, spent some of his early years in newspaper work in Elmira. In 1906 he bought a half-interest in the Elmira Gazette, combining it with the Star. He fought shy of the larger cities for years as he expanded his holdings, buying up papers two at a time, consolidating them on firm financial bases. He went to Ithaca, to Rochester, to Utica; to Plainfield, N. J.; and back to New York with purchases in Newburgh, Olean and Ogdensburg...