Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time in the preliminary work which has commenced on the John W. Wecks Memorial Foot Bridge. This bridge which is intended eventually to connect the University with the new Business School is to begin on the Cambridge side opposite McKinlock Hall. Although the bridge is to be 25 feet wide when first constructed, admitting only of foot passage, the supports, are to be placed so that it can be increased to 40 feet and thus accommodate vehicle traffic. Work thus far, which is being done under state supervision, has consisted in making borings to ascertain the nature of the ground...
Thus another English feature is applied as an American innovation. As an educational experiment the fortunes of the Claremont Colleges ought to be of wide interest. The main issue seems to be whether these colleges can obtain a university outlook with a small college organization. The units, obviously, will not have the traditions which bequeath the Oxford colleges their intellectual heritage. The American attempt must find its success in American conditions...
Contemplation is not a term of mere thoughtfulness. It connotes opportunity to watch undisturbed and to reason with care. In college education, it holds the added significance of wide speculation inducing as sound general conclusions on existence as a term of four years will permit. Din, educational or otherwise, is not consonant with formal education. The student is somewhat in the position of a diver gauging the spring of the board and the depth of the pool. It is hardly prudent to push him in before he has some idea of how far he will be thrown and how deep...
...more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south, parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be at the south end through a bell tower facing the Drive. Parishioners will have a turn to their left, after entering, to face the altar. They will have about 2,500 seats at their disposal, another insistence...
From far and wide the delegates had gathered. The slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell...