Word: broader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rudimentary shoots of an eventual Oxford replica may well consider the University's system not in the light of an evolving thing--although of course its mechanics are still in the process of evolution and probably will remain, so for some time--but as one whose broader outlines, the lecture-tutorial regime, are permanent...
...beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France and his miscellaneous guzzlings in bars and on trains elsewhere. But they had not read the Mayor's most recent wireless message from on board the Ile de France: "It was to get a broader and more comprehensive view of city problems and their correction that I have traveled many miles through Europe and worked hard in my search for a rest...
There will be Freshmen already absorbed in scientific careers, in medicine, philosophy and the prospect of business. There are bound to be others filled with the importance of their own self-sufficiency resenting the thought of culture and broader horizons. As the Freshman wanders about the historic buildings inside and out, as he contemplates the multitude of new demands to be made upon his time, as he analyzes his companions, and passes learned professors in the yard, his humility may drive him to his interests already established and further into himself; or on the other hand, his pretended superiority...
...Bishop of Ripon, however, preaching in Leeds the following Sunday, made a protest far broader than simple anti-Darwinism. Said he of Science in general: "With all this new mastery over nature, man has not seemed really to be advancing his own cause. . . . Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost...
...Governor Fuller of Massachusetts grounds for a further reprieve since the case was still, technically, before a court; and b) to give any one of the nine Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court opportunity to request a review of the case, which request would have given Governor Fuller broader grounds for a reprieve...