Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everything possible should be done to awaken interest in this course and to insure its continuation in subsequent years with even greater emphasis on contemporary problems. And nothing should be neglected which would help to make it broad in its scope and absolutely non-partisan in its nature. Only by a courageous search for truth, by discounting all propaganda, can the course be of lasting value...
What, some may ask, is the advantage of being broad? Isn't it the hard headed practical man with a single-track mind who increases the productivity and prosperity of the nation? These questions must be answered in a satisfactory way if we are to justify "a broader college education...
...deeper significance underlying President Lowell's report, however, is that the college can not train men to be broad; it can only offer them the material with which to train themselves. Most of the failures of graduates to make good in life must be attributed to a failure to get what the University had to offer. At no other American college is there available so much intellectual stimulus as here at Harvard, and no where else is a man thrown so much on his own resources intellectually. This is especially true in the matter of wide reading...
College men are particularly well fitted for politics. The training they receive as undergraduates aims to develop in them perspective and a broad view of life which should make them able to take part in the large aspects of government in a way that a purely technically trained man can not. Moreover, there are to be found in the colleges those men whose independent incomes make it possible for them to take a disinterested part in government. At present, however, many able university graduates shun political life. The reason, for this is two fold...
...question of the League of Nations attached to the Peace with Germany is too large a one, as you will readily understand, for thorough and detailed discussion in a brief letter, but I think I can state to you in broad terms the attitude which the Senate has taken in regard to the treaty...