Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form for such a subject. Here, as nowhere else, could the whole breadth and depth of Prohibition be revealed. Nothing would be more effective than a chorus of Rotarians in derbies, rolling forth grandiose melodies reeking with noble sentiments; or the orchestral blare as Prohibition, garbed in black, rushes full tilt at the lurid figure of the Demon Rum; or the carrying...
Sitting in on courses by the student who does as much or little other work in the course as he wishes, a custom of old and honorable standing at Harvard, is gaining in identity when it is given official status at Columbia. The desire of Harvard men for breadth in culture, as well as depth, is what has given the "Student Vagabond" position in the columns of the CRIMSON. His presence has made it possible in a degree to correlate the studies in different fields, to fit the art, the music and the literature of a period into a complementary...
...professional school being counted towards the degrees both of that school and of the college. We have never adopted that plan here, because the last two years in college, and most of all the last year, far exceed the earlier ones in value for giving breadth and depth of intellectual power...
...farsightedness and the breadth of vision that brought about such a step is one of the most encouraging aspects of contemporary affairs. In them two fundamental elements of human life, long opposed to one another, have been wedded. Each should benefit from the new association...
...second largest Negro city in the world (population 206,000) stretches its easygoing length and breadth over several square miles of southern Chicago. Some 41,000 of the inhabitants go to the polls, where it can be taken for granted they will vote for Abraham Lincoln's party (Republican...