Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enlarged loan fund, which would supply the infant organization with equipment and funds for running expenses until this aid proved unnecessary. The faculty advisers provided for by University charter could insure proper use of this money. But this negative phase of University supervision should be reinforced by wider interest on the part of members of the faculty in club activities. Scholars with interests ranging from photographic chemistry to Chinese politics could be given more than a haphazard chance to add impetus to these projects. What is missing is an effort to organize and promote this type of participation...
...common with other branches of the University, the Langdell Hall population this fall will represent a wider geographical area than normally. It is expected that more than thirty states will be represented. Previous high enrollment was that recorded for the 1939-40 school year, when some 1,390 students were registered...
...dear old Jones of the Form of 1896 when the boy has an I.Q. of 98. . . . We are none of us content to have so large a portion of our student body there simply because of. . . the paternal pocketbook. . . . We all want to open our doors wider to talent, [to] a more genuine cross-section of the entire American community...
Although the barges are similar in appearance to the racing, shells, there are certain differences which are of paramount importance to the untried crew. Some of the differences, said Coach Haines, are a wider span, a false keel, and a general all-around greater stability...
Racing shells are, according to Haines, 24 to 25 inches wide; while the barges are a welcome four inches wider. Another important difference is the so-called "false keel." This is a six foot long stabilizing fin on the bottom of the barge. The false keel projects about three or four inches downward...