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When she leaves London to live with an aunt in the country, they begin an extraordinary correspondence. It covers the full breadth of moral and natural philosophy. Always prim but also refreshingly direct, Polly poses her questions--about barometers, insects, river tides, electrical storms--and he responds in the flattering style he inevitably uses with young women who catch his eye. He ends one dense six-page tract, for example, by musing how he might sign off to so receptive a mind as hers. "I had rather conclude abruptly with what pleases me more than any Compliment can please...
...Professor Menand’s unusual breadth of interest goes with that perception of the way that the modern university is and ought to be flowing: not crystallizing into self-contained compartments or enclaves, but engaging in all different forms of outreach,” said Buell...
...Stepping back a step, does it make sense for a school this small to be offering a program of that much breadth?” Pagett asks...
...Core is where the students get breadth, get common intellectual experiences,” says Harris. However, he characterizes it as “in need of rethinking...
This represented a more holistic way of considering higher education, a question not only of social justice or quantifiable academic progress, but one of “approaches,” giving students a breadth of approaches and techniques that would serve them in the rapidly modernizing, multicultural world...