Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflict arises between the specialization of the thesis and the broadness of the Divisionals. Probably there is much in the contention that the undergraduate distinction thesis can really be of little benefit to a student as compared with the same amount of time and effort devoted toward covering a wider field. Yet whatever may be the merits of the end in view, the application of the new rule seems hardly the most equitable way of attacking the problem. As has been pointed out in these columns before, the tutorial system as now administered in the Senior year, places especial emphasis...
...Private Party." As sometimes happens, the mouse's squeak stampeded the elephants. Mr. MacDonald was reported to have offered Sir Oswald the Ministry of Mines to shut him up, but he and Lady Mosley only opened wider...
...coon-skins coats and football games" have received in the past. It is their purpose to interest the public in education by releasing to newspapers and syndicates the most recent contributions of colleges and universities in the field of science, and research. This is without doubt a worthy aim. Wider publicity on scientific study is to be desired. But the fact remains that college sports are spectacular, and college scholarship is not. The emphasis placed by the press on sports is also partly the fault of the universities themselves insofar as they provide elaborate equipment and build large stadiums...
...provide an interesting cross cut of humanity. For instance, No. 11, March 17, is graced by the stately form of Queen Mary, arrayed in jewels and characteristically erect. The next, No. 12, March 24, displays the crouched figure of Al ("Scarface") Capone. It would be hard to conceive a wider range of the human species...
Court Tennis. Henry VI of France liked this game so much that in his time people said there were more tennis-players in Paris than drunkards in England. Complicated then, it is even more complicated now by centuries of innovation. The court is longer, wider than a-lawn tennis court, a sagging net strung across the middle; a roofed gallery or "penthouse" near the ceiling, running around three walls, sloping from ten and a half to seven feet from the floor; an opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening...