Word: wider
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...here, and of the true development of student life have given place to absurd, and at times preposterous, tales about insignificant things. The Press Club realizes it cannot eliminate such stories, for there always exist many papers that care to print nothing else, but it does aim to give wider publication to Harvard news that should be known. If the new organization is successful, and its plans presage well, the yellow, injurious news will be superseded in influence by true facts...
...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 of the world...
...linked with the work, the prestige of the University is not advanced. Also many investigations are carried on and yield important results, yet to set these results before the public is impossible because of lack of funds. The establishment of the University Press will make possible the publication and wider dissemination of the results of this original research work. That the need of such an institution is becoming generally recognized is shown by the recent establishment of Presses at several universities in this country. However, none of these universities has established institutions comparable to those of Oxford and Cambridge, which...
...from one to a score of departments; the steady widening of the field from which it draws its students; its renunciation of a strict classical and theological training for a broad cultural education and the elective system; its gradual relaxation of Puritanical discipline; and its constant progress to a wider sphere of influence--how all this happened every Harvard man should know...
...aspects of life" belongs to "the deluded and the unhealthy" is rather supported than disproved by most of the evidence in the essay. But perhaps the author's chief purpose, as he himself suggests, was only to combat his own tendency to a narrow rationalism and to cultivate a wider intellectual sympathy. In this self-discipline he seems to have been entirely successful...