Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realizing the imminent necessity of facing this change, the Yale school has attempted to broaden the classical curriculum to include practical study of social changes in relation to the law. Instead of being confined to case precedents, the new study will attempt to find the causes and effects of the case, the actual circumstances from which the legal problem arose. Dean Clark has expressed the hope that the new plan will not merely be useful as vocational training. "The dream is that this will result in real gain in scientific knowledge and in methods of control of our intricate social...
...group, and by petition; and elected by the House. It is recommended that, in order to secure the men best fitted for various tasks, the committees should make a practice of appointing a number of their members. House Committees if they are active and show initiative can and should broaden and improve the organization of their activities especially as regards athletics and the choice of suitable speakers. To be sensitive to the desires of such large House groups and to overcome the inertia that necessarily exists in such groups is a field on which the House Committees as yet have...
...while in a Continental environment while interest and gate receipts in American tennis dwindle. Even in college football and crew where there are special reasons for continuity of method and coaching personnel, constant failure has brought change. Perhaps another year of tennis depression will be necessary to broaden the minds of the Lawn Tennis officials. A second possibility is that the officials themselves might be replaced for the benefit of the players. Another alternative is that the American team, and Vines in particular, will by the sheer force of their astonishing play, win in spite of themselves...
This new brightness is important in that it will attract the Laodiceans, in the college and go some way towards convincing them of the real value and place which the Advocate has in undergraduate life. It will be easier now to broaden the circle of contributors and subscribers both. Whether Pegasus is to undergo a qualitative as well as a physical metamorphosis, cannot yet be told, but the first stage of the change is an undoubted and encouraging success...
...school everything that has to do with the lyric stage. . . . We have 5,000 operagoers here in San Francisco. They have 20,000 in New York-possibly 80,000 in the whole country. What is that in a population of 120,000,000? We are going to try to broaden this audience...