Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than President Eliot, and few have so well deserved the honors that they have received. As a university president, he probably achieved more substantial results for the institution he served than any man in a similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other...
...further extended the principle of broadening geographically the character of the undergraduate body by the institution of the first seventh rule, by which the first seventh of a graduating class in specified grade A schools may be admitted without examination. The whole movement is on the one hand, toward wider geographical distribution, and on the other toward admission requirements emphasizing the general culture and possibilities of candidates rather than on the mastery of certain definite facts divided into the compartments of second year Latin, English history, trigonometry etcetera...
...debating is neither an advertising medium nor a gladiatorial spectacle. It is tainfed with neither professionalism nor commercialism. It is a meeting of keen wits from different parts of the country on common ground. In a more limited sphere it serves the same purpose as international debating, that of wider understanding...
...same is true of France and Great Britain. But as I go about the colleges and universities of this country I find few young men and women, even as I say, among these who can afford it, who intend to go into political life or even into the wider public life which can so helpfully influence political life. Yet the burden of solving the problem of this great democracy must fall upon the shoulders of someone. Upon the shoulders of whom ought they most justifiably fall than upon the college graduate especially in a time like the present when faith...
...tion placed it a long walk from many dormitories, particularly those in the Mt. Auburn St. district. The choice of food was limited, the meal hours not elastic. It was expensive. No wonder the cafeterias lured the students away. They were more pleasant, were more conveniently located, offered a wider variety of food and meal hours, and were cheaper...