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...important linguistically. If a language is useful for scholarly research, Harvard should teach it; for example, Dutch (which Harvard doesn't teach) is invaluable for students of Fine Arts. And Harvard should teach living languages, so that its graduates may communicate with other men. This last is clearly the broadest and loosest criterion. Plainly, since even teaching all the living tongues is also beyond its means, Harvard should select those languages which matter most in today's world--those which represent thriving cultures (like modern Greek, which we don't teach), and those which many people speak...
...gross national product, promises to spark the lustiest congressional fight of 1962; it will come over President Kennedy's bid for sweeping new powers to negotiate tariff reductions with the European nations. If the President wins his battle, U.S. businessmen will be presented with their broadest new market-and toughest new competition-since the 13 original states erased their tariffs against one another...
...Queen (in bell-like tones): How truly delighted we are to be here with you, dedicated as we always have been to Anglo-American amity and freedom in its broadest sense...
...service of our country the critical faculties which society has helped develop in you here. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, 'whether you will be an anvil or a hammer,' whether you will give the United States, in which you were educated, the broadest benefits of that education...
Contributing to the understanding of meaning, in the broadest sense of that phrase, is one of TIME'S key objectives. Beyond the week-to-week effort to make a contribution to knowledge with each issue of the magazine, TIME, through a special Education Department, works directly with some 3,000 college and high school teachers and more than 50,000 students. The teachers, who use TIME each week in their classes, receive teaching aids that include tests on current affairs, charts, special reports and up-to-date maps-which are of particular importance in this time of large events...