Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college has already mourned the loss of Dr. Brooks and is still mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been to Harvard. We can form little idea of the vast influence for good which he exerted for the college while in the vigor of his life. It is rather for those who have gone before us to have had the privilege of his personal acquaintance in the class room and chapel. Yet occasionally he has preached to us, and we have...
...broader one. There will be less danger of stirring up ill-feeling, which might be aroused by discussions which would bring out prejudiced comparisons between the two universities. The present question is, too, one which will appeal to a very large number of people. It is a vast improvement over the last one, which in itself failed to interest very many in the audience...
...other. The fact, however, that there is no supervision may possibly appeal to even the most dishonest man and show him the littleness of cheating under such conditions. Though every college has, and will continue to have, its class of cheaters, the sense of honor of the vast majority of undergraduates is stronger than is commonly supposed; and if the honest element in college was only more active in denouncing the dishonest element - even if they are all friends and classmates - the standard of honor would be materially raised. The outcome of this action at Princeton will, therefore...
...increase in earnings, an increase in traffic and a general improvement. Mr. Depew and Mr. Ingalls, both prominent railway presidents, express the sentiments of most men of authority in railroad business in acknowledging that the public and the railway need legislation that shall obtain complete control over these vast corporations, these vast concentrations of capital...
...sharp and narrow the great objection lies in the straightaway which is used the most. It would be of but little expense to double the width of the track from the gate down to the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, or to broaden it by one half, even, would make a vast improvement on the track as it is now, and the advantages to be gained by such an addition would, I think, justify the necessary expenditure...