Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best be of a cursory nature; tutorial work can be of little help where the tutor is a specialist in another department and feels that most of the time must be spent in the particular subject of concentration. The result as shown by the examination papers is that the broad knowledge aimed for is spread out so much that it becomes extremely thin...
...Banker Morgan, he showed him prints of the two pictures. Banker Morgan liked the first, tense pose, ordered a dozen copies. The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow. A trick of light made the chair arm look like a broad, naked knife in Banker Morgan's hand. Banker Morgan looked at this picture, tore it in shreds...
Chemistry has become a broad field. On the one side physics and mathematics, on the other biology and physiology are embraced in the many ramifications of the science. It is important above all in a field where laboratory work occupies so great a proportion of attention, not to neglect the theoretic investigation of the allied sciences, lest concentrators in the Division become mere followers of cook book directions over a Bunsen burner...
...possible for a student in chemistry to graduate with a knowledge altogether too small of the interpretation of the past by history and literature and of the present by science as a whole. The correlation of the manifold branches of chemical science, the broad study of the explanation and improvement of the earth and its inhabitants on the basis of physics and chemistry is ample justification for the establishment of a tutorial system in the Department...
...outstanding advantages of the new plan over the old one lie in the broad acquaintance it gives candidates with the three minor sport fields, and in the practical experience afforded in managing basketball, fencing, and wrestling before a choice of one sport is required. Candidates will be rated, as in all other Harvard managerial competitions, on scholarship, executive ability, industry, efficiency, reliability, and personality. Minor sports numerals and letters will be awarded to University and Freshman managers. These numerals will all be of the same type, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minor Sports Council last month. At that...