Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study and compel the student to take it. It is only when a student neglects some wide field of study that he can be called guilty of narrowness of choice; and an examination of the programs...
...Princeton said, "College should teach a man to make a life, rather than to make a living." After leaving the university the fierce struggle to make a fortune or attain success absorbs every other motive. It is therefore, at college that a man should realize the high ideals, breadth of mind and varied interests, which lend such an additional charm to life. It is the individualistic principle of the free elective system, which emphasizes out of all proportion the need of preparation for a narrow and personal success, and with danger of giving him ideas on the subject that...
...fault spoken of has been lack of continuity and building for the future as well as for the year, lack of responsibility, lack of breadth, lack of discipline and the failure to bring to the running of a big amateur sport the same systematization and common sense that would have been evident at once in any business in which the same men or body of men were engaged. This fault has not been in any one year. It has been almost annual...
...would not be lowered. But if scholarship is not to be cheapened, something else is going to suffer. The inestimable educative value--using educative in its noblest sense,--of a Senior year with four courses and plenty of time for those other occupations which bring maturity of mind and breadth of culture, will be exchanged for a year of hard, professional, specialized study in Law, Medical, or Graduate School, where the unfortunate three-year graduate may not even have time enough to regret that he has neglected a great opportunity in pursuing that Three Year Idea which seems...
...assume for American citizens. Among the topics which are specially discussed are the Indian question, the negro question, woman suffrage, machine politics and the recent territorial extension of power. The treatment of all these subjects is rendered more interesting, convincing and helpful by Dr. Abbott's characteristic optimism and breadth of view and by the way in which he sees the divine principle in every day things...