Word: microcosmic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book, Morison finds the major value of Harvard in the heterogeneity of the individuals who make up this "microcosm of the world in which we live...
Economics A is the whole field of Economics in microcosm; it is a study of the economic problem. So much land, labor, and instruments are available. Men must eat. But they want to do more than that. How can they use the available tools to produce the largest amount of what they most want? The problem requires much thought and discussion, and there are many different solutions. Capitalism, Socialism, Communism are but attempts to solve...
...football rallies, of graduate agitation for a larger and finer stadium, of point-a-minute teams, has passed. The false pride and exaggerated loyalty of those who scorched the wires between Cambridge and Princeton is not likely to return. Sport now takes a position in the college microcosm relatively much less important than that it occupied six years ago, and it is unthinkable that feeling should today run high enough to prevent the friendly meeting of traditional rivals. It has been this change of feeling, evinced by undergraduates and for several years expressed in the editorial columns of the Daily...
Under the low gloomy rafters of the Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis last week assembled 300 of the nation's deepest-dyed prohibitors. They were the National Convention of the Prohibition Party, that 63-year-old political microcosm which got 5,608 votes in 1872, 271,058 in 1892, 208,923 in 1912, 57,551 in 1924, 20,106 in 1928. Like the Republicans and Democrats in the Chicago Stadium, the Dry delegates had a keynote speech, organ music, long distance telephone calls to Washington, State placards, demonstrations, prayers, candidates for the Presidency, roll calls. Unlike the two major parties...
There are a number of places about the University which might well be given a function in the local microcosm as parking lots, without interfering with traffic, or causing any other nuisance. The cul-de-sac which runs past McKinlock and Gore Halls could be used for overnight parking without difficulty if the police would promise immunity to those who use it. There is a great deal of empty space behind the Business School rather forlornly awaiting another period of prosperity, some already employed as a parking space, and the rest just begging for the expenditure of a few dollars...