Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words of a member of the class of 1927, reprinted from the first report of the class, place heavy but correct fingers on a weak part of that miraculous machinery which makes a youth into a Sophomore. Honest and broad as are the efforts of University Hall to give Freshmen an complete survey of available fields of concentration, the result is spotty. Practise has proven that neither the most lively lecturer, nor the traditional head of a department, nor the actual head of a department is necessarily the most expert summarizer of the work to which his life is dedicated...
...other field occupying an ancillary position. The Harvard system devotes two years to an intensive study of a selected field in the belief that the-finest education is obtained by that man who at the end of four years has a detailed knowledge of one extensive field and a broad conception of its place in the whole range of study...
...major are so slight that the average man can scarcely be said to have a main field of study on which he focuses. The Yale system rests on the premise that for the average undergraduate specialization in college narrows him unduly, and prevents him from attaining a broad cultural background. It is the purpose of a college such as Yale to utilize the four years in presenting a great variety of courses from which the average man will be able to select those which appeal to him, within certain bounds prescribed by the requirements for degree. Four years, Yale believes...
Last week the Equitable Trust Co., from the great grey pile of its new building in Broad Street, Manhattan, distributed a financial advertisement of fearful implications. Some businessmen already fear a depression impends over...
...grief without understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this passion, without rights and without cure." But the "night of a child establishes so broad and deep an abyss between one day and the next" that in the morning Lorie's grief was quite forgotten...