Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in the issue of the Crimson for March 27th on "Broader Fields of Study, etc.," the statement was made that "History and Literature was the original field of this type," (i.e. the correlation of allied fields) "followed by Bio-Chemistry and History and Science. During the past few years examples of integrating two departments have been apparent in Classics and Government, Philosophy and Economics and others which operate without a special board of tutors...
...lowered intellectual standards, strained budgets, and charges that Harvard "starves" a particular branch of study, result. To offer a solution is far more difficult, for floaters always have and probably always will exist. But certainly it should be possible, through more conscientious Freshman guidance and through the establishment of broader survey courses, to provide those men capable of choosing their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores who have acquired a bowing acquaintance with a large number...
Following are some sample programs drawn up by the Faculty Council Committee on Broader Programs of Study...
...final analysis, this question resolves down to two comparatively irreconcilable theories of education. The one favors a deep, firmly rooted, but extremely limited knowledge. It leans toward vocationalism. The other favors a broader and more integrated type of learning. It admits less depth in a particular department, but argues that an examination of all the possible approaches within a wide area to a specific problem, and a consequent understanding of the relations between these different approaches, outweighs the loss. If it is admitted that the objects of formal education are to train the intellectual powers and to further the cultural...
...made a magnificent protest. As an attempt to object publicly to the prostitution of knowledge to the worldly aims of an individual state the effort has proved wildly successful--the whole world is indisputably convinced of Dr. Bridgman's aversion to government regulation of scientific research. But in its broader significance, in the possible scope of its influence, the recently pronounced ban has several conspicuous aspects which stamp it as an impractical, misguided, dangerous effort...