Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plain golden oak casket received Nikola Pashitch at the last. Slowly, on a rumbling gun carriage, he passed to his grave through broad avenues which were muddy roads in his youth. As clods fell upon the casket a priest bearing a silver tray of steamed wheat gave to each onlooker a few grains which they munched in mystic symbolism...
Speaking of the Little Theatre and Repertory movement, Miss Hayes gave both her sincere commendation. She did qualify this by suggesting that neither had a very direct connection with the practical, working stage, the stage known to the layman by the term "Broad-way". Like all other arts the theatre requires a certain amount of common sense, which if vulgar makes for box office receipts. "Shakespere", said the Barrie heroine, "was after all rather practical. He played for the gate, you know...
...have been as critical and as formative as the forty preceding during which President Eliot labored so fruitfully. The questions of admission requirements, of the curriculum, of the graduate schools, and of the material facilities of the University have all been pressing. They have been met in a farsighted, broad-visioned manner by Mr. Lowell...
...England. The chief reason for this condition was that schools in the South, the Middle West and the Far West often did not prepare directly for the old plan examination. He therefore instituted the new plan admission rules whereby a candidate might take four general examinations in the broad fields covered by every first class school. The success of this innovation is illustrated by the following figures. In the year before the institution of the plan, 8.5 per cent of the students admitted came from the Atlantic States and 4.5 per cent from west of the Alleghanies. In the first...
...system of concentration and distribution, of general examinations, and a modified tutorial plan. Under him Harvard has been a pioneer in this field. The system is too well known to warrant discussion here but it is interesting to note that an examination of his annual reports shows a broad conception of its development from the very beginning of his administration. In the 1909 report he writes, in explaining the new concentration and distribution division, that "it is to require every student to make a choice of electives that will secure a systematic education and . . . to make the student plan...