Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...books by Harvard professors, who can now have the advantage of local and efficient publishers. But this is the least of the Press. To undergraduates its books may not always be interesting; but they will be of use in the realm of thought. The Oxford Press has gained a vast influence in the outside world; it has brought prestige to its University and it has contributed to universal knowledge. Our own Press during its short existence has thus been effective. The founding of the Harvard Press is another step toward the wider influence of universities on the learning...
...modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...
...Council, in its most recent report, suggests that less emphasis be laid upon final examinations and that greater stress be placed upon frequent hour examinations. The Council maintains that the present system, with its unique emphasis on final examinations, puts a premium on irregular work and results in a vast amount of eleventh-hour "cramming" that makes easy the path of the professional tutor. In our editorial of May, 24, to which the writer of the communication refers, we set forth the suggestions of the Student Council and pointed out that the adoption of their proposals would result in more...
Similar schemes could not, of course, be applied to football, baseball, or hockey, because of the vast number of contests which are held in these sports. But the number of scholastic crews is necessarily limited. Why could not Harvard offer to these crews the same opportunities which it offers to scholastic tennis players and track athletes...
...closing Mr. Woods pointed out a number of broad foundations on which he believed that a new social order might be based. By these effort should be made that every child might have an opportunity for an upbringing, physically and morally sound, there should be a vast extension of the co-operative spirit in industry, as well as a supervision of the greater part of all business by public authority...