Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faculty and senior advisers, whom the student comes to know at the beginning of his college career, the proctors living in the Freshman Dormitories in many cases prove helpful to individual Freshmen. Of them Dean Chase says: "We have been most fortunate in obtaining as Freshman proctors men of broad sympathies who have a real interest in the problems of Freshmen and who regard the keeping of order as the least important of their duties." By the end of his first year the student in most cases has met his tutor or an adviser from the department in which...
...second major point on which the present organization may be sharply criticized is its failure to convey an adequate impression of the broad general significance of all social service to prospective workers. The undergraduate--usually an underclassman--goes to the committee's open meeting in the fall, and hears nothing but luke-warm banalities from amateurs. Instead of vital information from recognized authorities, he is given unintelligent generalities by local celebrities in other fields. The meeting degenerates into a series of amiable but perfunctory talks, and the enormous reservoir of idealistic enthusiasm that moved the audience to attend is left...
...small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects of mass...
...Author. W. Somerset Maugham took a medical degree at Heidelberg, practiced for a while in the slums of London. Now 50, black-eyed, broad-framed, diffident, he is a restless traveler. His most famed novel, Of Human Bondage, a best seller ten years ago, has had a steady sale ever since. Miss Thompson, a short story of his, was made into a play?Rain?with startling results. His dramas, however, are potboilers. His other novels, short-story collections : The Moon and Sixpence, The Trembling of a Leaf, The Hero, Mrs. Craddock, Liza of Lambeth, On a Chinese Screen...
...down the Dry Coast, torrents of rain were falling. It rained for days, for weeks, for two months continually. Great rivers came out of the mountains, broad lakes flooded the plains. The ground, hardened by years of baking, at first shed the water in sheets. Then hardy seeds sprouted forth; and, where there had been deserts, lush meadows appeared. The emaciated cattle of Santa Elena gorged and fattened. At Talaro, an inland oil settlement which had lain lifeness in January, a network of streams covered the waste land in March, filling the desert and the very village streets with myriad...