Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beyond a certain point reason cannot go. "We are finite beings in an Infinity, and our finite minds cannot grasp the Infinite. We follow Reason as far as she goes, and from that point on Faith must take her place. If we fall in Faith, therefore, we do not broaden our lives, but narrow them...
...William Lord Smith '86, experienced scientist and world famous explorer, is offering a unique opportunity for Harvard men to broaden their education by a voyage around the world. He has planned the trip, which will last a year, for five or six graduates of the University, and has secured an assistant who is capable of giving instruction in biology, history, government, and comparative religions...
...Reduce the number of courses required for graduation by four, and broaden the field of the tutorial system...
...Reduce the number of courses required for graduation by four, and broaden the field of the tutorial system to include half the work now done in the Junior and Senior years. Tutoring prior to the Junior year would be arranged in accordance with the individual needs of the various departments, but in any case would differ little from its present form...
...ripe for further advances, for progress which has waited only upon the establishment of that fact. Since the new system and that alone, for courses have changed but little, is responsible for this highly desirable stimulation of undergraduate study, the time has come for more serious efforts to broaden its scope. The first of these ought to be directed toward a radical reduction in course requirements...