Word: larger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That each generation of undergraduates should exercise its prerogative to tar and feather the teaching staff -- typographically speaking--is a healthy thing, and the most recent essay in that direction, Mr. Bunde's philippic in the Progressive, manifests unusual insight not only into problems of pedagogy but into the larger question of a university's true function. Mr. Bunde, by and large, has done a good job, but the effectiveness of his criticism is blunted by over-indulgence in harsh and intemperate personalisms. There are ways of getting at the same end without resorting to personal abuse...
...also hoped that there will be far more extensive coaching facilities. These will enable the Rifle Team to make greater progress and possibly letters may be given within a few years by the H. A. A. Thus Riflery will become a fully authorized minor sport with far larger membership and equipment...
...type of reporting often neglected or very poorly done. Thus good reporting of new scientific developments was the aim of one man's study; another dwelt on the difficult field of South American relations. Secondly, the Nieman Fellowships have enabled "small-town" editors to gain a perspective on the larger problems of government and international relations. This year there was but one editor of the "country" type; among next year's there will be three. Finally, the year at Harvard has not only given the men a welcome and probably--in spite of all that is said--profitable vacation...
...Hall Larger...
...outstanding innovation of the year is the use of Memorial Hall, which is much larger than the always crowded Union, where the affair used to be held, Decorated so that it no longer has the appearance of an examination hall or a college commons by a crew of volunteers, the huge, high-vaulted hall is festooned with streamers and pennants hiding the tapestries, busts, and stained-glass windows...