Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will deny that admitting 8,000 members to a club house built for 5,000 would be highly unpleasant for all concerned. Nevertheless the extra members would bring new funds to premit building larger facilities. Yale Clubs, which admit almost all alumni to their ranks, have expanded their club houses...
Supporting the argument for House representatives, Richard Bushman '55 said the Council "would be moving with the administration" in emphasizing the House over the class. He said it is inevitable that the Houses will eventually take over a more important place for graduates because the College is growing larger and more Houses will be added...
...member of the Brown community looks with interest but not envy at the larger, tradition-rich members of the Ivy group. He notes their strengths and weaknesses, forgets them, and talks of achievement and advances at his University. Since he assumed the presidency at Brown in 1937, Henry M. Wriston has insisted emphatically, "institutions are like individuals; they are all different. There is a tendency to think that because we are different, we are wrong." At Brown, there is a tendency to think that Brown is different and Brown is right...
...intensity of the present GSAS curriculum is expressed in studies as well as in studying. Most of the larger undergraduate departments are broken up into smaller areas for concentrated graduate study. With a predominance of A's required for the Ph.D., the GSAS dean's office recognizes a B as the rough equivalent of an "undergraduate...
...training of students from small colleges with inadequate undergraduate preparation, the courses themselves are considered more for undergraduates than for graduates. In the 200 series of courses, the practice of encouraging undergraduate honors concentrators to register in courses which are not actually seminars has become common. Thus, in larger departments the undergraduate enrollment in 200 courses has often exceeded graduate enrollment, and the combined enrollment is so large that the "conference" course is reduced to the routine lecture course...