Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old St. Mark's gives the kind of education and discipline that gets its graduates into the best colleges and the best clubs. Though the school's 177 boys now come from 21 states and nearly 20% are now attending on scholarships, Barber hopes to broaden the base even more. Every year, from now on, he will give a five-year scholarship to one boy from a different part of the U.S. "Private schools," says Barber, "justify themselves if, through their scholarships, they make it possible for all types of Americans to attend." Next year...
After the dinner Mr. Charles W. Duhig, graduate secretary of PBH, spoke about the meaning and value of PBH work. "We all expect something in return for the work we do," Duhig said. "What is the value we receive from social service? We broaden our understanding of people. Success often depends more on this breadth of understanding than on skill...
Perhaps the most helpful nonadministrative group connected with the educative process on the college campus today are the fraternities. By fostering school spirit, extracurricular activities and social functions, they help develop latent qualities of leadership and help broaden students' personalities...
...five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
...science concentrator. The usual requirements amount simply to two years in chemistry and a year each in biology and physics. If they thought more concentration desirable, they would assuredly demand it in their admission requirements. Rather, it is the hope of many committees of admission that the student broaden his education in the humanities and social sciences, leaving the bulk of scientific training to the four-year medical school and the succeeding one- to five-year hospital programs. Today, it is the feeling that too many physicians emerge from their education with little but a high school education...