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Word: broad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauties of Chinese literature, there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years, six times as many heroes discover their spirits of adventure to be aroused by the challenge of geographical exploration. Nor is the apparent explanation that Harvard men have unusually broad cultural interests and turn naturally to the extraordinary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: READING KNOWLEDGE OF CHINESE NOT REQUIRED | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

...always have the non-scholarly as well as the scholarly student. Undoubtedly the C man has a place; he is the spine of the extra-curricular activities, which in their way are as essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though he may detest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...good teaching. When Dean Hanford recalls great names like Bliss Perry, Norton, and Palmer, he unintentionally brings to mind the scarcity of such men in present-day Harvard. With teachers who can stimulate from the platform as well as in the study the 'University will more closely approximate a broad, liberal education than by any other means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Will go on board of few selected companies. Eminently qualified. Highest references. Broad corporate, technical and economic experience. W 737 Times Downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertisement | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Under the broad general provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, each Fraternity must pay two per cent of its pay roll (or the equivalent of pay in board), in order to safeguard the latter years of such of its members as are given jobs to help them to pay for their meals. There is already a section of the law exempting, employees of educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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