Word: wide
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Playroom" was first given on March 17, and it has been considered the best Workshop production of the year. The acting of the two little girls, the Misses Barr and La Mont, has received wide commendation. The cast has not been changed except that Mr. J. W. D. Seymour '17 will take the place of Mr. Richard Lloyd, who is ill. The characters will appear as follows: Lizbeth, Marguerite Barr Fanny, Betty La Mont Ethel, Mrs. Thomas Loudon Cecily, Miss Vianna R. Knowlton 1917 Roger, Mr. J. W. D. Seymour...
...fundamental problems which face the industrial world in this era of transition and unrest, has made a the thorough, wise and farsighted choice. Theirs will be an invaluable opportunity to experience for a study their ideas of social reform, and ultimately to aid intelligently in the present world-wide search for a more satisfactory combination of the conditions which govern the life of the worker, and a more stable and balanced tendency in the development of the social order. When the summer is over, they will have learned something in the coal mines, factories, mills, stock-yards, or packing-houses...
...chief value of a college education lies, not in any specific facts the student may learn, but in a general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...drill hall will at once be turned over to the newly established Harvard Engineering School for use as a laboratory for mechanical engineering. It is a large building, 280 feet long and 100 feet wide, with a power house immediately adjacent to it, and when fitted out will offer unusually ample facilities for laboratory work in mechanical engineering. It will also enable the electrical laboratories located in Pierce Hall to more than double their present capacity, and will increase as well the laboratory facilities in sanitary engineering and metallurgy...
...been called together to discuss the business, banking or professional problems of the nation, which, as a body of representative Americans it could face as well as any other. It has been called together expressly for the purpose of extending and binding still closer the ties of a nation-wide alliance of fellowship and congeniality which includes all Harvard...