Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authority exists for coordinating educational processes which are coming more and more to transcend state and even regional lines. Today it is more common than at any time in the past for students to leave home and go to school at a distance. This practice makes for that broader knowledge of men and things which characterizes the much lauded English college graduate. It diminishes sectional feeling, and breaks down sectional ignorance...
...ancient history and politics. He will become intimately acquainted with the leading figures of the time he is studying. He will read and digest the literature and philosophy of the ancients. The Classics are an all embracing subject. One cannot fail to quit their study with an infinitely broader horizon than when one began...
...doing it would be practicable to develop more deeply rooted habits of accuracy and thoroughness, a larger reading in the authors, greater facility in the reading and broader appreciation of the literary and historical influences flowing from the subject," says the report. "It will also furnish those who go to college greater power to read college Latin with certainty and speed and thus the opportunity to gain a larger first-hand acquaintance with Latin literature...
...best possible matter: The graduate schools show its effect as well as the English system. Graduate Students are willing to work even excessively long hours because they are taking the work of their choice; while the English student with his freedom works enthusiastically and naturally attains a broader education...
...narrow slot through which the light passes. The fluctuations in the current passing through the magnetic field move the metal wall back and forth according to their intensity, making the slot wider or narrower. The light beam, passing through the slot, falls on the revolving cylinder, printing broader or narrower lines of light on the film. With each revolution the cylinder is jerked 1/65th of an inch to the right, and the spot traces another line exactly parallel. This interval was found the best for newspaper pictures, but the machine can be set for any degree of fineness or coarseness...