Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teach in preparatory schools subjects which will be acquired for all time rather than for college board examinations. Harvard, long a pioneer in educational innovations, is in a position to assume the lead in revising admission requirements so as to influence the preparatory schools to give their students a broader preparation for college work...
Sounding a call for business leaders with understanding of the economic system and its social relationships, W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, in his annual report to the president, made public yesterday, outlines a new and broader approach to business problems which the School is expected to pursue. Dean Donham cites over-specialization as an important cause of the current economic collapse, and voices the intention of the School to concentrate study to an increasing extent on the general problems of business...
...questions 9 and 10. If the general examinations are of the proper sort, preparation for them and work in the general field should boil down to the same thing. If this is not the case, there may well be something wrong with the examinations. Construing tutorial work in this broader sense, I cannot honestly say that any one of the students I have had has "failed to respond to tutorial instruction...
...sort of reasoning is that it is impossible to treat anything as a work of art unless it be thoroughly understood; which is only possible after long and careful study of the many details in which the ancient languages differ from modern. This work must be preliminary to any broader treatment of literature...
...profound believer in research and in tutors carrying on some research. There is a spontaneity of enthusiasm that can then be passed on to a student. If the man be mature enough to put a sufficient check on his major interest so that the student may get a broader view of the field, and yet be led to see the problems it contains, I believe the research aspect is wholesome and stimulating. Personally I am afraid tutorial guidance is often factual alone, and becomes a "hum-drum" to the student--just one more piece of work. On that plane, tutorial...