Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early age, and his general education was limited. His specialized education was obtained in the hard school of practical experience. He has been inclined to regard years of practical experience as the only effective training for positions of responsibility. Holding that viewpoint, he has minimized the value of a broad education, and has looked upon the college graduate as a theorist. Facing this critical attitude the college man has been handicapped. His progress has been hard won. As he has compared notes with classmates who have gone into other lines of business, he has found that railroad salaries...
...instances where the adoption of modern operating methods has been deferred. Extensiveness has given way to intensiveness. The general manager and the superintendent of today have fewer opportunities for reducing expenses than were open to them a decade ago. There is, therefore, an urgent need for young man with broad educational attainments, men who have been taught to think straight and whose intellects have been sharpened to analyze and to approach their problems in the scientific spirit. Such men, upon whose theoretical training has been superimposed the stimulating as well as the sobering effects of practical experience, should give...
...erect a cross member at a suitable height between the stacks, consisting of substantial framework so covered that it would appear to the eye as of the same solidity as the chimneys themselves. The result would be a gigantic H,--over a hundred feet in height and proportionately broad which would be seen to advantage from nearly every point of the compass...
...problem of depression in industry is one that Congress cannot control by law-making. All it hopes to do is to stave off ruin for the farmers who have fared worse than the rest of the country. It behooves the manufacturer and business men to be broad-minded enough to accept what is obviously class legislation framed to meet the unusual conditions of a short period...
...work or social service. With the increasing recognition of the need of experts in American life, the field has greatly broadened and the demand for highly trained specialists has grown much faster than the supply. A university president once remarked that what we need is not narrow men but broad men sharpened to a point. That is the kind of men the Graduate School seeks to supply...