Word: broader
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Furthermore, in my opinion, however paradoxical it may seem, the broader or less 'specialized' the college education, the better is the man fitted for his great specialization--his life work., I firmly believe that the chief part of the educational reconstruction will be that the college graduate of twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...
...only would such a body have considerably more effectiveness and weight in executing its projects than the two undergraduates who have been elected annually to the vice-presidency and secretaryship in the past, but it would also have at first hand a more diverse range of opinion and broader vision...
...necessity compels an earlier call. Students under eighteen and therefore not legally eligible for enlistment, will be encouraged to enroll in the training units. Provision will be made for co-ordinating the Reserve Officers' Training Corps system, which exists in about one-third of the collegiate institutions, with this broader plan...
Conservation may be put through more effectively along broader lines if the teamwork of the public is enlisted by a skillful explanation of the facts. Cornell...
...other ways the development is equally clear. Taking into consideration human failings and realizing that human nature cannot change in a night, it is nevertheless scarcely too much to say that the selfish individualism of the past is giving way, in part at least, to a broader sense of altruism. Men today are beginning to care more about the well-being of their fellows. They are establishing means of recreation, industrial insurance and institutions for the betterment of the ordinary lot. The doctrine of allowing every man to shift for himself is a thing of the past...