Word: wider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indication of the University's aloofness. Much misunderstanding lies on both sides. Discussions, committees, and contacts may not clear the differences away, but they are at least courageous attempts. The failure of Harvard to concern itself with the proceedings would be detrimental in the worst sense to its wider interests...
...academic world is at present extremely leery, and rightfully so, of any attempt to graft the English system in force at Oxford and Cambridge on to our present institutions. American universities are sprung from a different conception of education and must meet the demands of men from far wider spheres and with far more varieties of interest. They must evolve their own adaptations to modern conditions....The experiment indicates above all else the fact that enough interest has been aroused, in the cause of a more modern and more effective. American education, to call forth a superb gift promoting...
...most merited rebukes you or any other publication ever received, and you weren't honest enough to admit it. There was no excuse for the first printing of the cheap anti-Catholic verses by which the Sister was offended; your inclusion of them only served to give them wider circulation. When you reprinted them under the Sister's letter of protest, you marked yourselves as either boors or sympathizers with those verses. Then when another lady writes you to reprove you for your second exhibition of bad taste, you "crawl." There is no other term...
...move toward wider, cutting privileges at Yale, recently initiated by the Student Council, culminated yesterday in the granting of unlimited cuts to all honor men in the three upper classes. Harvard students will recognize in this decision the establishment at New Haven of a modified Dean's List...
Although "The Bloody Shirt," a striking narration of political chicanery in the American Legion, will command a wider circle of readers than any other of the Advocate's current offerings, it is around "The Rally" that immediate Harvard interest will chiefly center...