Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University in Central America are now beginning to show very definite results with increased knowledge of the hieroglyphic writing and other lore of the Mayas. The growing importance which archaeology and thnology occupy in the estimation of he general public today Dr. Spinden attributes in large part to the wider sympathy between nations and their appreciation of the civilization of other aces and other times than their own. The Peabody Museum began its Mayan research in the eighteen eighties and has pursued the work so constantly that Harvard now has enviable archaeological possessions and facilities for study in this field...
...change in Harvard's game schedules. The present ruling against post-season games should be continued. The CRIMSON opposes the idea of an Eastern Football Conference, which is being currently discussed in the press. It is conceivable that such a conference might be made the instrument for effecting a wider acceptance than is now possible of limitations upon the overemphasis of football. But just the opposite motive seems now to underlie the agitation in favor of such a conference. A Big Eastern Football League with its big conference games every week would bring to final completion those evils against which...
This is what Evreinov means by theatricality, his companion theory of the monodrama. It means much more than the art of the theatre. It embraces a much wider field of human activity, originating, actually, in life itself and from there ascending to its highest expression on the stage. By theatricality he understands the power of transformation which he believes to be deeply rooted in human character. To appear what one is not, to transform life into a continuous performance is the ideal which should be set up by humanity. To put it in other words to escape the misery...
...called commercial theatre to take experimental productions on tour. If the country is to see what is new and fresh in the dramatic world, amateur dramatic groups have still very largely to exhibit it, and by exhibiting it to train, slowly, sufficient appreciation to make possible its wider, professional dissemination...
...whole nation in a frenzy every autumn. Many there are who now believe that the glorification of football has gone too far. But this theoretical question aside for the moment, the fact is that the Harvard-Yale game, in addition to being a classic, has taken on much wider significance and has become a national institution...