Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, the report which appeared yesterday is outstanding for its sympathetic sincerity. If any generalization can be made abut something so broad in scope, it must concern the genuine if temperate liberalism; and the honest desire to search out and alleviate the injustices under which younger instructors now labor. With one exception, it is able to harmonize with the recent Teachers' Union document...
...principle the larger the number of members of a department who vote on given recommendation, the greater the likelihood that the decision will reflect broad and representative estimates, and a consideration of different attitudes and points of view...
...solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores who have acquired a bowing acquaintance with a large number of fields can be expected to choose wisely a subject for intensive study. Some fluctuation in department popularity is inevitable...
...that the new plan of cross-field and area concentrations will not create much change in the present setup. Both Professor Frederick A. Saunders, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Professor Frederick L. Hisaw, Chairman of the Biology Department, were of the opinion that the scientific fields are already broad enough to satisfy the requirements of practically any student interested in a scientific education...
Hisaw's Field Already Broad...