Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt. The danger in that sort of thing always lies in its too-theoretical use. The ending of the old entrance "conditions" simply means that the University is now considering its Freshman applicants on a broader basis than the often accidental "marks" a boy may get on his entrance papers. School records tell more that final examinations, valuable as the latter are to determine whether a boy is capable of meeting a test when the occasion arises. This will work out so that an applicant with...
...week to Harvard, having been appointed visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Education for the second half of the current academic year. Professor Adams, who served in the same capacity last year, will give three courses, beginning Monday, designed to meet the need of those who seek a broader basis for their thinking on problems of educational theory and practice...
...English Literature rather than in Anglo-Saxon and Linguistics. This will mean that in future only those students whose natural bent inclines them to the special field will elect that field, which is as it should be. Incidently the whole approach to Literature is placed on a broader basis. Another very healthy and hopeful sign in the new plan is that the main emphasis is laid on the student's showing in the examinations written and oral and no longer on the mere accumulation of honor grades in courses...
...Huck's book is offered as fiction, Tom's as an essay, but the contrast between them is broader than that. For while Huck Anderson is trying to make a work of art, still he is one of the most self-obtrusive of artists and in propounding his way of life he trespasses on sociology; and while Tom is trying to point a social moral (in effect: "Behold, we do, and should, serve youth far more nobly than youth was served yesterday!"), still he implicitly adorns a tale (in effect: "What a wonder that I turned...
...definite place in cultural development,' said Assistant Professor M. Morse in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The modern conception of culture will expand from that of Mathew Arnold's day, when it was considered a knowledge of the best that had been thought and said, to include broader intellectual activities; in particular a more flexible attitude toward science and philosophy." Professor Morse went on to say that in this country such an expansion would necessitate the recognition of Mathematics in three roles which differ greatly from the popular conception of the subject...