Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lancaster--"Gold Diggers of Broad-way" and "Woman Trap...
...undergraduates, four-year programs of study consisting of mathematics physical sciences, engineering studies, and general studies, were planned, which provide a sound, broad, scientific training that recognizes the main fields of engineering, but without specialization. The Freshman year is practically common to all. Some of the programs begin to be differentiated in the second year, and others in the third; but in mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering the first three years are practically identical. The schedule of studies is simple and progressive, but rigorous. Not more than five subjects may be taken simultaneously. Routine so-called practical work and ephemeral...
...This industrial city has a daytime population of 35,000, its own police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began...
...might be examined on some more restricted subject such as Public Finance or Governmental Regulation of Public Utilities in such a way that he would be able to focus his knowledge of Economics on something of real interest to his own line of study. Under such a plan a broad basis of knowledge in the related fields would still be essential, but the grind of going over the details of elementary courses would give way to more profitable and interesting study. Some sort of move in this direction would be in keeping with the noteworthy place which the Division...
...well known report on undergraduate concentration President Lowell pointed out that the emphasis should be on avocational or cultural rather than professional training. Economics gives a broad viewpoint on life when approached in a proper spirit, but it is to be feared that these figures in large part indicate at tendency toward premature vocational training which should not be encouraged...