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...Seven years later one George Barron undertook to conduct an acaartillery and engineers, and the creademy for the few cadets then in service; but, says the Colonel of the Corps, "the Institution soon ran into disorder, and the Teacher into contempt." Under Government management, however, the Academy began to broaden its scope of learning, and the early curriculum of Mathematics and Engineering was supplemented by Frence and Drawing. At that time the 30 odd cadets lived in barracks dating from the Revolution, boarded promiscuously, and attended, classes in the two-story wooden "Academy...
...trying to broaden the field of our curriculum. An economist, a political scientist, and a psychologist, have recently been added to our faculty, each of whom deals with the legal aspect of his field...
...Joint in 1924 up to the present year, it has loaned out more than $3,000,000 to Jewish farmers in Soviet Russia and spent more than $400,000 in educating them in modern agricultural methods. The new subscription which was announced by Philanthropist Rosenwald, last week, will so broaden the work of Agro-Joint that it will merge into a new corporation to be founded for Jewish land settlement in Russia...
...Bank Burglar." It has only four faintly off-color confessions. But the March True Experiences could almost be read at a Sunday school picnic. It has a wholesome girl on the cover, properly clad in a red dress with white collar; an editorial by Mr. Macfadden entitled "Broaden Your Outlook." Among the confessions are "The Girl of the Golden Heart," "MatchMaking Mothers," "When Loyalty Calls." Attempted seductions: three. Successful seductions: none...
With the increased emphasis on study in the colleges, the square young man who does not like to read, but matriculates in the "campus-alumni" tradition to broaden his acquaintanceships, enliven his dinner table conversation, and acquire some appreciation of the arts, fluids himself in an alarmingly round hole. He does not need four years to accomplish his purpose, and with their passage comes a feeling of futility, of irresponsible adolescence too long prolonged. Destined eventually for business, he sees the time of his apprenticeship, the time when he can earn enough to marry, pushed too far ahead by years...