Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real value. True, many men enter only to wander about vacantly for a year or two, "lost in the shuffle", and finally drop out in discouragement. But for those who can keep their feet--and their heads--a large university can offer more courses, better instruction and wider experience than is possible in the smaller institutions...
...preserving the value of the big college,--and that is contact; the college, the faculty, must do their utmost to keep in touch with the men. Only in this way can the number of misfits, always too numerous, be lessens Only by combining the small group and the wider field can be the ideal of college be difined and the ever present specter of limitation laid...
...romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there times when we long to have, (as what gentleman should not?) "at least twenty coats"; to find ourselves in a wide hall choosing a rapier of founding a silver mounted pistol, or to be out on the still wider seas, swinging a cutlass...
Altogether "The Mirrors of Grub Street" is a very creditable job. I hope to see The Advocate try it again, with a wider scope, a more serious program-and perhaps a sharper blue-pencil. Meanwhile I am, free to say that to the common or garden sort of outsider, who has been hearing-and sometimes saying himself-that the colleges are not turning out writers of good English, this display affords a most encouraging answer. Indeed, there is apparent in most of this collection a degree of literary finish and sophistication which some weary old hands might envy and emulate...
...activity by completing the arrangements for the private production of two one-act plays. Each of the plays will be the result in every detail of work by members of the club. In order to give those connected with one department of the club an opportunity to gain wider experience, or to estimate their ability in another department, there will be a coach, stage manager, and special producing staff for both plays. Two performances will be given to which past and present members of the club, the patronesses of the club, and members of the 47 Workshop will be invited...