Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ordinary entrance examinations have been particularly inadequate in the East, because many preparatory schools have paid more attention to "getting pupils by" in their examinations than to preparing them for college in the broader sense. The result of this has been that it is common for a student to be admitted who has no power to apply his mind in independent thought...
...ultimate source of the false impression received by our delegates was a speech made by an officer of the national Student Volunteer organization in which he led our men to believe that the conference would be much broader than it really was. It is time that our delegates clear themselves of blame by dropping their childish pretence and admitting collectively, as most of them do individually, that the conference was a disappointment and must not be repeated unless its true purposes are made perfectly clear. --The Tech...
...Coupled with the plans of the War Department for a broader, more practical and highly efficient mental and physical development of its commissioned and enlisted personnel are recently issued orders directing that polo is to be promoted wherever possible in the service. Realizing the combination of mental and physical activity which polo requires of players, it is well designed, from the very nature of the game, to further the development of horsemanship, skill and daring. This plan, which every commanding officer is directed to immediately set in operation, has a special significance to colleges where units of the Reserve Officers...
...mind may develop great efficiency in his own business, he has not the breadth of view to link it up with the businesses of others. Some one must be available to fit the cogs into their proper places in the elaborate economic system of the country. This requires a broader mind. The college offers such a mind a greater chance to mature...
...burden of being able citizens and justifying a broader education rests very much with ourselves...