Word: broader
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Most educators today also see sound psychological reasons for mixed classes. "The mix tones up the give and take, furnishes a broader view," argues Webster College Vice President Joseph Kelly. Vassar's Simpson notes that "the more diversity in background and point of view that comes out in a classroom, the richer the experience." Catholic educators, who have traditionally been wary about the "dangers" of too much sexual intermingling in classes, also concede that coeducation provides students with a sounder basis for marriage. The mixed campus provides a meshing of intellectual and social life in which the boys find...
Though the Dow average of 30 blue-chip stocks has now erased three-fifths of its 1966 slump, broader gauges of the market show even more striking recovery. Standard & Poor's index of 425 industrials last week soared to an alltime high of 101.16, and the ten-month-old composite index of all 1,267 common shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange reached a new peak...
...modern art, but it is the new and bizarre forms that pose special problems for the critic and the photographer-as we found again in working on the story about the luminists. They are very serious about their seemingly playful work, and their background is apt to be broader-or at any rate more technical-than that of the traditional artist. Their experience includes such far-away fields as nuclear physics, optics and electronics. "They are of the technical age," says Piri Halasz, who wrote the story, "but they remain artists primarily." Researcher Leah Gordon found Nuclear Engineer Earl Reiback...
Reading authorities concluded that the ability to read at extreme speeds was a rare gift that nobody could "teach." Most of these experts still assert this belief today. The Harvard reading people, however, take a broader middle position. They hold that in the setting of college work one must provide as much for the improvement of conventional reading skills as for the breakthrough into extreme speeds for those people capable of it. Says Roderic C. Hodgins, who has taught Harvard's reading course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride...
...broader issue is the Federation's right to speak for the teaching half of the teaching fellows, who play the dual role of graduate student and Faculty member...