Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure, he cautioned, was not to be confused with a general sales tax because, he said, the former could not be "pyramided" and ultimately loaded upon the consumer. Somewhat confused by the President's choice of terms, observers thought that what he was asking for was a wider application of the Walsh amendment...
Varying opinions on the question were expressed by the House Masters. One expressed belief that a change would be beneficial, and that "wider dining privileges would be extended, so that guests from one House may dine at another House without extra charge." Another repeated his conviction that "In time an innovation of this kind will be desirable, say in five years, but at the present time, too wide an extension of privileges will tend to destroy incipient House spirit...
...Spring of 1930 and was later rescinded but it now appears that a final decision has been reached. Seen purely from the standpoint of the approximately thirty Freshmen who will thus be barred from the Houses the move may seem unfair. But the action of the University carries far wider implications and is indicative of a change in policy in the school: an effort to make it more and more of graduate character. Although present restrictions seemingly make a realization of the ideal--a professional school, free from all undergraduate instruction--impossible, the University is now attempting to make...
...could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with a pleasure which they cannot enjoy except by going to the Music Building a good quarter of a mile away. To all the House members it will offer a wider, fuller education...
Applied to university teaching, Dr. Count's appeal has a much wider application. A Harvard student should have sufficient discretion to judge the comparative values of the different theories presented him. It is safe for Professor Babbitt to expound the wonders of Humanism as long as Professor Lowes continues to defend the Romantics. The student will progress further towards forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share...