Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This type of summer work has been dictated for the most part by the impulse to see and feel the great facts of life in their largest, roughest, and most elemental form, and to broaden in view-point accordingly, which was aroused but not satisfied for them in time of war. The jobs they have selected are those which involve heavy manual work, among men who work honestly from day to day with their hands, and see things from the laboring man's point of view...
...while undergraduates in the University. President Lowell ended by pointing out that if a man puts his best into his studies and also into his outside activities the former will take less tme, and will increase in standard, while the latter will be much to develop him and broaden his point of view...
There seems justice in the demands of many alumni that one or two members of the Corporation should come from New York or cities outside of New England. They consider that new blood should broaden the outlook of the Corporation. In that there is obvious reason. But the necessity for able business men on the Corporation is paramount, to provide a strong backing and to keep the University and its professors out of need...
...discussion groups would offer us this opportunity. Many of us have grown up in a certain political and social atmosphere and our minds have been limited by false prejudices, Direct contact, however, with new points of view through the medium of informal meetings would broaden our outlook and give our true natures the chance to reveal themselves...
...admission to college can be broadened without lowering the standard, it ought, of course, to be done. It ought to have been done in the past, because the more men who can be given education of a high grade, the richer the community in intellectual power, in material strength, and in physical well-being. We have striven to broaden our methods of admission as far as possible without lowering the standard. In this we have been partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind...