Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might keep the above quotations in mind when he considers the question of "depth" versus "breadth" in a Harvard education, that is, in a liberal education. With regard to this question one might also recall that the founders of Harvard aimed ultimately at "the advancement of all literature and artes and Sciences." This "liberal ideal" burgeoned into President Abbot Lawrence Lowell's "a little of everything and something well." President Conant continued to foster this ideal and embodied it in his General Education Program...
...CRIMSON printed a series of three editorials criticizing the Doty Committee report. In these editorials, the CRIMSON (1) attacked the Doty Committee for its "vague definition of general education," (2) advocated that Gen Ed courses be defined as those which combine fields, and (3) proposed an alternative of "breadth" rather than "depth...
Finally, I find the CRIMSON's contention that breadth should supersede depth an indication of the shallowness of its own thinking. One year is just not enough to discuss adequately on any level a topic as broad as those with which Gen. Ed. courses deal. Indeed, a Gen Ed course, by its very nature, should be more careful and detailed in its presentation of material than a departmental course. It should try to provide insights into its material and the way in which the scholar deals with it. It is ridiculous to assert that the student is benefited more...
...counsel to them that may seem strange: in most cases don't bother to tell us who's winning where. We expect to get that information on all major races from the press-service copy and other general sources. TIME correspondents will concentrate on adding depth and breadth to the general reporting-why the results took the various turns they did, how they were taken by politicians and people, what they mean, the reasons in retrospect for the surprises that are sure to occur, the human reactions of winners and losers...
...result: a versatile, sure-fire way to convert every conventionally rigid fabric in the world into stuff that stretched up and down, back and forth, to and fro, and never once ran out of breadth. Accordingly, a whole new galaxy of stretch fabric appeared, all developed around a spandex core, ranging from brocade to burlap, taffeta to twill. Not all of them cling to the skin, but the stretch qualities let them give when and where they have...