Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glass of Fashion" are being widely discussed as something more worth while than the effervescence of "the Grandmother of the Flapper" or the diaric bombast of Colonel Repington there comes another books from the pen of A Gentleman With a Duster. It may not command such a broad audience solely with religious personality and "the rather ignoble situation of the Church in the affections of men", but an eclectic public will appreciate the earnestness of the man even if it doesn't agree with his views...
...arguments in favor of a general cultural course are by no means to be ignored. "Culture" does not mean blind, narrow-minded reading of the Classics any more than it implies an implicit faith in the efficacy of the Quadrivium of the old monastery school. A cultural course means broad general training--"literature, science, history, and the knowledge of men", as opposed to absolute concentration in one intensive field. The danger in a single-track education can be well summed up in the words of a successful flood-engineer of the Middle West:--"I trained myself...
...clear cut as over the other Crimson entries in the hammer throw. Malcolm Morse '24 is the best high jumper with A. K. Murray '23, the only other University member who can be looked upon as capable of scoring points in the meets this year. In the broad-jump as in the sprints, Percy Jenkins '24 will be among the strongest entries if it is possible for him to arrange his duties with the baseball team in such a way as to allow him to compete on the track. J. E. Merrill '24 and C. J. Hemlin...
...interest in preserving during the times of peace those institutions in the defense of which they are ready to die in times of war. This attitude of a very large proportion of the men and women of this country who are by tradition and education fitted to take a broad-minded and patriotic point of view makes easier the work of the demagogue appealing to prejudice and ignorance. Nine out-often of the Harvard graduates physically able to do so joined the armed forces of the United States during the great war, and yet today I very much doubt that...
...President of the University at the age of 35 he was much younger than the usual college president, and yet in spite of his youth he combined an individual educational program with a constructive program that succeeded in transforming Harvard College from a provincial New England college to the broad university that it is today. It was due almost wholly to President Eliot that the graduate schools developed, that they were brought into a relation with the college, and that the standards of entrance examinations and of college work were raised. He was a champion of individual rights...