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...practical plan that testers the intellectual growth of the ambitions student and at the same time tends to eliminate the haugers-on who encumber the colleges. Education is after all a matter of and for the individual, and the educational trend of the present day shows an endeavor to broaden and further the score of individual interest and development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD MOVEMENT | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Dillwyn. She lets at least one character, life-loving Evelyn, young Joe's wife, escape back to New York and Paris whence she came. She even lets her have Hope, her daughter (the small hope of Westlake), and puts all the agony on Joe's shoulders, which broaden by bearing it alone. But Kate, from the day she leaves art school to be the first Joe's bride, from that charming but shiftless Joe's early death in Westlake, through long years of pitying herself, loving little Joe, resolving to paint again but never doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sister Anne | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...elimination of the waste in industry we can not only increase output, but we can cut down the average working day to five or six hours, and thus afford the worker with an increased chance to broaden and enjoy his life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILENE SEES INDUSTRY AS BULWARK OF PEACE | 3/18/1926 | See Source »

...inventions while still recognizing their value. They are not necessary to life. They but facilitate extensive and intensive living. An automobile is a better cart; the radio and the moving pictures provide a keener hearing and a farther sight. They are valuable wherein they increase the sensations and hence broaden the conclusions of life, which has always been a thing of sensation and conclusion. And he who receives the sensations and reaches the conclusions of life is man; he still remains, among all his creatures the paramount figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUDRE AUX YEUX | 2/25/1926 | See Source »

...other hand, the Western Conference has many good features. The greatest of these is the fact that ten great universities are united by the strictest athletic code in existence. Consequently, Mr. Edmonds suggestion of a conference in the east, which would broaden the scope of the Harvard Yale-Princeton agreement, is very laudable. But why have it a mutually exclusive organization. Neither the Western nor the Missouri Valley Conference forbid their members to play preliminary non-conference games. Therefore, why could not a similar organization in the East allow for non-conference games, or at least for preliminary games with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/22/1925 | See Source »

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