Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publishing a Communist paper. Keen noses that scent danger star, as well as the instinct of self preservation, may be back of much of the disapproval with which considerable portions of the British press have greeted this drastic action. But some of the objectors take issue with Oxford on broader grounds the "Spectator". for instance, reminds its readers that true education consists in more than what President Lowell calls the process of being a sponge and a syringe. "The person who wants to learn, and who is, therefore, worth teaching," says the "Spectator", "should have "Why?' 'How? and 'What...
Once a Harvard man always a Harvard man. The broader point of view, the mannerisms of speech, indifference of all these are said to mark the Harvard type. But these are characteristics more common to the college, man in general. Would you know how to detect the true Harvard man? Watch him at his meals...
...played on any preparatory school teams, he is often at a loss to know what benefit, and also what pleasure, he will derive from the many sports he has to choose from upon entering Harvard. The field of college athletics is on a far broader scale than anything he has seen before, and there are so many new things he must accustom himself to in his new surroundings, that he often makes the serious mistake of "dabbling" first in one sport, then in another, until in his Junior or Senior year he finds himself shouting encouragement to his friends from...
...regulations as they exist will make the organization of Reserve Officers a broader one than that of the Regular Army. The Corps, as it is today, includes every section of the Regular Army and in addition five other sections which are essential to all organizations and which are, namely...
...count either for a college or an engineering degree. Although the instruction provides training which is required in some of the engineering programs, the subject matter is treated from the standpoint of making the courses desirable electives for those who do not intend to become engineers. The broader aspects of engineering and related economic problems are brought out; and the aim is to develop personal responsibility, efficiency and accuracy...