Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment brings into the faculty a man deeply interested in the "athletics for all" policy, and with him it places this policy on a level of academic equality with the intellectual concerns of the University. At once it fills out the athletic policy and sets it on a broad foundation...
...opportunity was Mary's again to renew plot and counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is uniquely designed to stimulate culture. By the terms of Mr. Still man's bequest, the incumbent of the chair must be a man of international reputation, whom Harvard in all probability could not otherwise secure. Under the broad definition of poetry the new professorship makes provision for men of ability in the cultural arts of music, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as in the rhythms of language. Professor Murray of Oxford, an authority on the Greek drama, is of the type which the chair was designed to attract...
...English system of instruction and his undoubted scholarship will give an impetus to the tutorial system which will go far toward completing its success. Under the stimulus of Professor Murray and similar scholars in later years, tutors and undergraduates of every department whose work comes under the broad definition of poetry will benefit by personal contact with leaders of thought. Truly the chair in honor of Professor Norton is an unusually valuable addition to Harvard scholarship. In the words of President Lowell, the professorship of poetry "helps the struggle of years to place college emphasis on intellectual culture...
...Running Broad Jump--Won by Glendinning (D); second, Jones (H); third, Ketz (D). Distance...