Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expansion has, for the moment at least, been reached. The existing physical plant is no longer adequate even for the present classes. The existing faculty can cope with further numbers only by indulging in the methods of mass production and specialized training which have become so characteristic of the mammoth state universities of the country. It is time to call a halt if only in order to formulate plans for a further advance...
Fired with enthusiasm by the mammoth mass meeting held in the Alumni Gymnasium last night and fresh from a hard two hours practice session on the Memorial Field gridiron this morning the Dartmouth football squad left Hanover at noon today for Boston. About 2300 student rooters will leave tomorrow...
...American education nothing but a future of continued democratization with its attendant evils. In 1923, after ten intensive years of such a process, there are signs of a natural reaction and of a growing sentiment in favor of at least a few colleges which, in opposition to the mammoth institutions of our generation, shall maintain for those who wish it and can benefit by it the tradition and ideal of liberal education...
...Harding and his party approached by way of the Panhandle. At Wrangell, in the Panhandle, once a trading post of the Hudson Bay Co., the party was greeted by " thousands of people." The populace presented Mr. and Mrs. Harding with a basket of super-strawberries and a bunch of mammoth peonies. Here, amid totum poles and other emblems of the red men, the President declared that he had come as an " apostle of understanding. That is what the world and the nation most need." Following him the three Secretaries in the party, Work, Wallace and Hoover, also spoke...
...Chairman of the National Petroleum War Service Committee, and in 1919 Chairman of the International Trade Conference in America, organized under the U. S. Department of Commerce. At the Genoa Conference he was an informal observer, and is generally associated with the foreign activities of the mammoth oil company...