Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education of the engineer should then include a mastery of certain scientific principles, a training to develop the power to reason in terms of such knowledge in its application to practical conditions, practice in expressing his ideas clearly in drawing, in writing and in speech. He should have a broad general education, and an open mind...
...fact that one man on the Yale team, Norton, got as many points as Harvard's total bodes ill for the Crimson in the dual meet. Norton won the broad jump with 23 feet 11 inches to his credit, placed second in the short dash, and third in the 220-yard sprint. He will be a dangerous man for Harvard in the meet on June 15. It looks as if the Elis could count on him for 15 points...
...apparent purpose and blew endless streams of bubbles as they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them...
...likely to place. Yale, on the other hand, has Norton, who should place well in both dashes tomorrow, Captain Gage, who placed fifth in the quarter-mile last year, Gibson in the 880, Deacon, who jumped 6 feet 3 inches two weeks ago against Princeton and broad jumped 23 feet, and Bench, who hurls the javelin close to 190 feet...
...Harvard "type" is famous, and is usually diagnosed as a complication of broad "a"s, horn-rimmed glasses, and aloofness. Such a generality is no truer than generalities ever are, this one included. We consider it scarcely fair to Williams to term it "a glorified country club", although we admit that the quantity of golf hose in the student laundry is prodigious. No more is it fair to say that your Harvard host permits you to sit in the corner until he finishes his chapter of Epicurus, and then yawns constantly during a difficult conversation...