Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers are chosen by the heads of their various departments to study the business problems involved in the tremendous purchases incidental to military operations, and are studying the broad principles of business administration rather than the details of any particular civilian industry. The purpose of the work being done by these officers, many of whom have already attained the rank of major, is to establish a contact with modern civilian business methods which the officers find indispensible, but cannot obtain by participation in civilian business firms...
Last week Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera Company talked to the press. Behind his broad, shiny desk in Manhattan he told about four operas; three new singers...
There are two possible remedies to a situation which viewed in its broad aspects, and discrediting any petty sense of smug satisfaction, is certainly unfortunate. Either Harvard men through a tolerant and intelligent contact with men of other institutions, must come to the conviction that all good things are not centered in Cambridge, or they must sooner or later school themselves to an open minded acceptance of manners and methods strange, perhaps, but measured by a different standard quite as good...
...British Government's reception was an evening function in the Great Hall of the House of Lords. Premier Baldwin, pipe in pocket, fanned the fires of Anglo-American friendship. Ambassador Houghton sought to bank the same fires with the broad hint: "I would remind my countrymen that good men are scarce and that they will soon be needed at home...
Harvard has the men named above, and she has others, whose appeal is broad but no less intense. With their aid and with the experiments which she is making along educational lines she is as well equipped to cope with future problems and to lead future generations as she has proved herself to have been during the past three hundred years. Undergraduates of today may differ in many respects from those of yesterday but they have yet to demonstrate immunity to that intellectual zeal which is under the leadership of such teaching as the University affords, so fortunately contagious...