Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more sensible than most persons are willing to believe. The students who will be affected are the ones who are pursuing specialties to the point of narrowness, and the loafers whose exploiting of the elective system leads to mastery of no subject. The specialist will be required to broaden out; the student in pursuit of "snap" courses will be required to concentrate. Both processes will tend to the same end--the turning out of well-rounded men, equally ready to enter on their life-work or to pursue their studies in a graduate school...
...which is essential to success. Care, good breeding, intelligence, and fidelity are indispensable, and there is a field for originality and intellectual growth. Though the retail business has reached a high level, there will always be a vast opportunity for men with first-class executive and financial ability to broaden and improve the business profession...
...more in the class who had received the greatest number of As were elected in order of their rank, according to the figures in the College office. No man was considered for election from outside this select group of scholars. For some years to attempt was made to broaden the qualifications for membership and the result was the society narrowed down into a group of men similar to those recently described by President Hadley of Yale as "professional scholars." Another and more dangerous result was a loss of prestige and influence in the University...
...University, marks an educational epoch, not only at Harvard and in Massachusetts, but everywhere in the educational world; that his high character and keen insight and wise thought have stimulated and changed for the better collegiate, secondary, and elementary ideals and methods and have initiated an influence that will broaden and deepen as the years pass...
...character drawing. The two bits of verse are not noteworthy. The articles deserving of comment are the Editorial and Varied Outlooks. The first draws its theme from Mr. Wister's remarks, and then goes on to discuss the college career. The conclusion is dark College is a place to "broaden one's mind" but not through ineffectual pecking at all sorts of unrelated things, and not in "contact with men," which too often means becoming part of a clique. It is a place where we should learn to work as well as to play, where we should learn to enjoy...