Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such an experiment, perhaps the germ of a wider literary movement, has come at a propitious time. The much-abused and misunderstood renaissance of America's younger generation, of which the flapper-is commonly considered the only product, is-well started. Youth has asserted itself variously and with considerable effect. Up to this time it has had to fight for recognition and being immature, has in its enthusiasm acted often rashly or gone to sensational extremes. All contests for independence are characterized by such exhibitions--witness the French Revolution...
...wrote the president during his absence, chortling over their success and encouraging him to silence. When the note was opened by a member of the board while the president was out of town, the game ended, but only after increased circulation had been made for the Lampoon and wider fame for the president's friend...
...Student Committee will find itself in a stronger position than ever before. It provides a far wider representation of the University through the election of its members from the graduate schools and also through the three appointments, which it makes. It is established, furthermore far more into penitently than before, since its connection with the Student Council has beer severed. And it has been endowed with certain discretionary powers with regard to Union speakers...
...discriminate, to derive a sense of values from experience longer and wider than our own, would be the first of a liberal education," writes Mr. John Erskine in the current New Republic. This definition is sound enough, and Mr. Erskine's contention that the college curriculum is over-crowded with courses on second-rate subjects also points to a danger in modern education. His solution of the problem is to cut the curriculum down to a study of a few great men of all ages...
...again--would it be easy to improve on the list of men now in office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead of men of wider reputation. But the difficulty is that the voters, the Alumni, fail to elect them: they prefer to vote for--candidates whose names and activities are familiar. The committee to suggest names has frequently tried the expedient only to find that men especially picked for the job fall by the wayside because...