Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of showing to college students the broad field offered by medicine is only too obvious: the notable achievements in biological research attained under the tutelage of Johns Hopkins University is a case in point. As long as the comparative lack of correlation now existing between the college and medical school continues, there can be no hope of arousing enthusiasm for this work. Undergraduates of scientific inclinations have at present no opportunity of seeing in perspective the advantages offered by medical science. The college, in seeking to attain the proper fulfillment of its pre-professional role, cannot afford to negleet...
...determine what we mean by stable. As I have pointed out, it might perfectly easily happen that one person might declare a government was stable which presented many elements of instability to the more trained eye of another. A fair definition of stable would be "founded on a broad and general suffrage by literate and well-informed peoule, in which the principles of freedom of thought, of speech, of worship and of work, and the right to hold and enjoy property are well protected". Stability also requires a sufficient accumulation of wealth on the part of the people...
...feature of indoor track to be introduced in the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell on February 26, will be the holding of the pole vault and broad jump events on the dirt floor of the indoor baseball cage at Soldiers Field. This will give the men of these events conditions practically as good as those they will encounter in the outdoor meets throughout the spring, an advantage they have not had before...
...closest possible relations with the College, in order that engineering students may not only participate in the College life and become imbued with its traditions and ideals, but also that they may have the benefit of contact with teachers whose interests and activities are outside the technical fields. A broad general training is a great asset to an engineer. The requirements to the Engineering School are the same as for Harvard College. And the courses required in the first two years of all programs in the School may be counted for a degree in the College; and some...
...students enter upon their work as regular employees and are paid current wages for the work which they are doing. They are not placed in one department and left there, but are transferred from one kind of work to another in order to get a broad vision of the business, and a knowledge gained by experience of the most important and difficult of all problems, that of human labor. Their work is thoroughly supervised, they are given prepared lists of leading questions intended to guide them in their work, and they are required to report at frequent intervals about their...