Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture is intended to arouse a wider interest in the Grenfell Mission among Harvard men, and to encourage his hearers to volunteer for the work. Inasmuch as financial aid is not looked for there will be neither admission charge nor collection at this talk...
...experience in other phases of college work in connection with the Department of Hygiene; and it is to be hoped that he will be given some similar position in Cambridge. In this way a coach is kept in constant touch with the affairs of the University and given a wider point of view than that usual in the mere "professional instructors". In full accord with the principles upon which the Harvard track system is based, Mr. Martin is "just the man to continue Mr. Bingham's good work and keep Harvard from slipping back into the old rut under...
...public will put an end to the investors' strike, by which railways have practically been refused the money needed for improving working conditions. As in practically all these labor problems, it is the public who decides. Particularly in the railway question, a larger understanding and wider sympathy on the part of the public is needed before railway management and railway men can get as close together as they would like...
...whom much has been committed of him will be required the more. Duties he upon a man according to his power for good and evil. Those who can do only little must do that little, and great is their merit if they do it faithfully. Those whose influence is wider must use it to the full for good, and great is their desert if they do so, but great also is their deficiency if they neglect their opportunities. Even in a democracy, and in any form of civil policy that has ever existed or can be conceived, power...
...hunter that counts; whether the penalty be loss of life or merely loss of liberty is a minor matter. Of course in this case the author could hardly ask for a murderer the sympathy which he undoubtedly here gains for the thief, but the Playgoer feels that a wider recognition of this principle underlying all "thrillers" would give us many "nicer" plays with no loss of entertainment...