Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diversity of professions and occupations. In the list are six lawyers, two merchants, a banker, a manufacturer, a doctor, an author, an educator, one prominent in social service, one in public affairs, one in the real estate business. It would be difficult to imagine a list representative of a larger circle of contacts and experience than this...
...study of English than of any other college subject, those who have picked English because they could not make up their minds what they wanted to study, or those who would rather read novels than trace historical tendencies or spend their afternoon in a laboratory in other words, the larger part of the men who are concentrating in English a chance to browse is practically synonymous with a chance to loaf. But for the "constraining effect of divisional examinations" they would never attempt what little reading they do, and English, as a field of concentration would be of even less...
...connection with the recent investigation of race-mixture, which have been carried on by the Division of Anthropology, Martin Luther '21 has returned recently with a larger collection of data and material concerning the physical appearance and life of the inhabitants of Lapland...
...class and captain of its football team in his Freshman year. By means of a more highly organized staff for the purpose, and with the provision of Freshman Halls, we are paying far more personal attention to the Freshmen than ever before, and are constantly doing so to a larger extent, with the result that parents need not worry about sending their sons at 17. For the boys of normal maturity to come at that age and graduate at 21 would be better for the whole body of students
...present progressive, standard-raising movements are fast accepting the principles which Professor Mather propounds for his senior college; yet they leave no place for the men in question, and their right to a humanistic education. The experimental endowment of such a two year course in some one of the larger universities would be an interesting step toward the solution of this rather important problem...