Word: broaden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This effort by the College of the City of New York to broaden the policy of college education in the United States is highly commendable and the results of this plan must necessarily be watched with interest. If age is willing to be taught, the opportunity to learn surely ought not to be lacking...
...student will have an opportunity of intimate personal contact with business life. Arrangements have already been made with the National City Bank whereby a certain number of students will be afforded an opportunity to prepare themselves for the service of the Bank in foreign fields. It is proposed to broaden and generalize these opportunities so that ultimately every student will be enabled and expected to do some field work in that particular department of business life in which he is especially interested. In almost every phase of 'big business' in New York today the need is experienced for more expert...
...helping others into office than by being a candidate one's self. The great assets that they and younger men bring with them to their work are enthusiasm and a belief in ideals. Their service will be of assistance to themselves as well as to the public. It will broaden them and open their eyes to the hardships and struggles going on in thousands of homes to earn a sufficiency for existence, it should teach them to appreciate the view-point, of the other side, to see how easy and yet how unjust it is for the one who inherits...
...Cornell Conference on International Relations which begins today offers courses of lectures which should broaden and deepen the view of any man, pacifist or militarist, in regard to the most fundamental and far-reaching problems of our times. The predominant tone of the Conference will be anti-militarist; but Congressman Gardner and General Wood will be present to give their views in favor of preparedness. It is the duty of men of all shades of opinion to acquire the greatest possible insight into the ideas of the thinkers who are giving all their time and energy to working...
...outdoor meetings on Round Top, addresses in the auditorium, and delegation meetings. The aim of the Conference is to give the undergraduate an opportunity for the discussion of his life work, and practical religious subjects with men who are leaders in every sense of the word, and to broaden men mentally and spiritually by contact with members of other universities and by ten days of continuous out-door life...