Word: broader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...March number of the Magazine of American History contains several articles of a broader interest than usual. The editor, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, contributes the second paper of her series on the significance and present condition of "Historic Homes and Landmarks." The numerous points of interest about Bowling Green in New York City are well described and their connection with the history of the city is told in a charming manner. The article is illustrated with many pictures, some of the places as they are now and others copied from old prints, as they have been in the past. "America...
...Harvard life. This system has been developed so that now such a variety of topics is treated that nearly every taste is satisfied at some time during the year. As a source and means of general culture their effectiveness cannot be over-estimated. They generally treat of a broader range of subjects than can be taken up in a college course, and so form a good supplement to the regular student's work...
...need of a broader curriculum has been felt by the faculty and considerable changes will be made at the beginning of the winter term...
Prof. E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking in a publication of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, of the expansion of college work from its ancient narrow field of mathematics and the classics to the broader field in which modern languages, history, political economy, philosophy and the sciences occupy an equal place with mathematics and classics, writes as follows...
...spite of this drawback the instructor who has had the course in charge during the past two years has succeeded in obtaining excellent results. Now that the subject is to be given its proper place in the elective system, the scope of the course will doubtless be much broader, and the benefit derived from it much greater than has been possible under the limitations heretofore existing...