Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the acceptance of students for registration is requiring careful work, in is a simple problem compared with selecting men to accept faculty positions. However, 450 boys living together on a steamer for eight months, means one outstanding word--Selection. Certain broad principles were laid down by the leader, Dr. Thwing. Acceptance is based on character first, then scholastic standing, vigorous health, elimination of the lazyminded, and acceptance of those who have something in their minds they wish to study, see, or do. This work looked formidable it is proving very easy. Informationss is easily obtainable. The colleges have shown...
...Broad Education...
...year of travel under exceptional auspices before entering college or business. About one-third are undergraduates who want to receive credits for their year's work so they will lose no time, but many ignore the question of credits, whose parents are interested more that their sons receive a broad education rather than a technical one based upon a degree. The other third are graduates, who want to take up special studies for which this trip would be especially suitable, or general postgraduate work, or those who want to take probably their only opportunity for travel before they enter business...
...suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like the dear old boy he is. Norman Fanchild plays the Oyster; and he does things to an impossible role. The comedy of the piece is so broad that no mortal could look across it; he alone of the company plays it in the manner of a vaudevile farce as it should be played...
...field events Pratt will have to capture both the shot and discus if Harvard is to hold even the New Haven outfit in the field events. By scoring four points in the javelin and hammer throw, three each in the broad jump and pole vault, and two points in the high jump, the Crimson will edge out Yale by exactly one point...