Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defects of the present system, even for the man who has his club, tend to defeat almost equally one of the prime essentials of education, namely, that one acquire as broad a knowledge of human nature as possible. It is quite right that the clubs exist, and it is natural that they should draw together men of kindred interests. This is an excellent feature of college life, as all will admit. But when there is no effective center of gravity larger than the club to draw men of different interests together, there is great danger that the clubs will lead...
...this event the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily) took editorial notice with cutting Brahman irony: "After a winter spent in Chicago and enlivened by intellectual restlessness, the happy tramp heeds the call of the broad highway-his acquaintance with the humanities having given him that detached, impassive view of life so indispensable to members of his profession...
...make a strong bid for the premier running honors of the east. The all around success of the team seems to rest largely with the field men who have not been so well tested yet and are thus more of an unknown Quantity. Jores in the high and broad jumps and Pratt in the weight events have both shown considerable promise...
...fists?sufficient, I venture to think. . . . Come!" Thus Jeremy Veryan to his dog as he sets out across Mr. Farnol's newest pages to escape a crabbed guardian, find his father's murderer and woo a real storybook heroine in that most romantic of epochs, the day of The Broad Highway. Nothing further is necessary to introduce this book to the thousands and thousands that will read...
...foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly burned it. Over 600,000 copies have been sold since an English firm took it in 1908. Beltane the Smith, The Amateur Gentleman and a dozen others are known wherever stories are read. Chunky...