Word: broaden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...principal speaker on the question of changing the requirements for entrance to colleges in the state. He warned the administrators present against the dangers of lowering the standard of work required for entrance to college, but was in hearty accord with the idea of inaugurating any plan that would broaden the chance for more high school men to enter college...
There have been three matters before the Convention affecting the University and the other institutions of higher education in the State. It was proposed to broaden that chapter, incorporated 137 years ago in the original organic law of Massachusetts, which singles out the University for special mention and commends it to the favor of future generations, to include all the colleges of the Commonwealth. This amendment which was drafted with the aid of officials of the University, was rejected for reasons not connected with the University, thus leaving the status of the latter unchanged...
This naval training will not supercede nor conflict with the course in training for the military unit. Army service helps qualify an applicant for the officers' reserve of the navy. In the same way the naval training will broaden an army officer's knowledge of the problems of national defence...
...first picture in the world," and best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America so many objects of artistic value and historical interest of every description as crowd the rooms of this most remarkable of American residences...
...great degree, are acquired here on the campus. We owe it to ourselves, to the University and to the nation, to meet and to know these students who are virtually our guests. We owe it to ourselves, chiefly because we can learn much from them that will broaden our sympathies and understanding. The Pennsylvanian...