Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter today concerns the popular Inca pastime of Rolo, which our specialists have just discovered. At the base of the mountain we came upon a huge pile of rocks stacked haphazard at the foot of a broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...
...countries. The University has a special cause for grief; Viscount Bryce has always been a loyal sympathizer with higher education in general, as well as a warm friend of Harvard. Those who were privileged to hear him speak at the Union last fall, were impressed not only with the broad scholarship of a man who could write two such authoritative works as his have become, at the wide interval of half a century; they were impressed also with his warmth, his sincerity, and the keenness of his desire for better international relations and for a higher type...
...University. What promises to be the most interesting discovery to date was made in uncovering a small, well-preserved building on the edge of the area, which had the appearance of an office. Inside, stacked in huge piles along the walls and hanging from the ceiling were bunches of broad leaves of a tropical plant popularly known as elephant's ear. These leaves were tied together by the stems in uniform bunches. They had dried smoothly and lay close together like sheets of paper...
...meet, including Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth and Columbia. University teams will be entered in the following events:--70-yard dash, one-mile relay, two-mile relay, one-mile run, two-mile run, 60-yard high hurdles, pole vault, high jump, 16-pound shot put, and running broad jump. In addition a Freshman medley race over a distance of one and seven-eighths is scheduled, and it is planned to enter a yearling team in this event. The Association trophy, a bronze statuette representing a gladiator, will go to the college having the largest number of points, the latter also...
...students there has been little change. The percentage of student in the entering class who come from outside New England continues to increase steadily, following the general trend in the direction for the past decade, and reaching in this year's entering class 77 percent. Anotindication of the broad appeal of the school is the fact that its thousand students represent 180 different colleges and universities...