Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nanette--of "No, No, Nanette,"--all she wanted but that most deariy was "to raise a little hell". Similarly with the passengers of the Ryndam. It is extremely difficult to be collegiate when one's activities are confined to the decks of a ship; young and adventurous souls crave wider spheres, no doubt feeling that they are capable of bigger and better things. Therefore the ports visited along the primrose path to higher education an not only opportunities to examine bizarre architectures and to pass off foreign language requirements; they are to be compared with the nocturnal diversions...
There is no idle curiosity to Dr. MacDonald's searchings. "It is by no means impossible that the study he suggests might lead to a further wider knowledge which would ease the final hours of those who retain consciousness till the last...
...Permits Wider Range of Study...
...reprints in TIME, however, always get attention when I am making my weekly cover-to-cover survey of your excellent paper. I believe, therefore, that they carry your message to a wider audience and afford your readers the entertainment of comparing the imitation with the original...
...recent development in higher education has been so characteristic of modern America as the college "drive" for endowment. It began as a means of relieving the hard necessities of professors. Presently a new need developed. In consequence of the wider diffusion of prosperity the number of students doubled and redoubled; there was insistent need of more professors, more material equipment. Institutions already struggling desperately to maintain themselves were in danger of being submerged. One after another they appealed to their alumni, to love's of learning in general. A summary of sixty-eight such drives shows total receipts...