Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head lines" or "life lines" in her book. The form of the hand is her best clue to heredity, temperament, mentality and talents. The hands of children usually resemble those of one parent, sometimes a child will inherit one hand from each. An underdeveloped thyroid gland causes small, fat, broad hands, white and flabby, and a personality that is kindhearted, open-minded but unstable and lacking in concentration. The overdeveloped thyroid gives a long, bony hand, with thin bony fingers and an active, vivacious personality...
...courses, Dean Hanford pointed out that the Faculty has already provided "a broad course offering in the humanities as well as in the sciences, thus making possible the continuity of instruction...
...examination, resulting in a variety of experiments to rejuvenate and implement the liberal arts. The House system at Harvard, with the broadening of tutorial, was one searching move. Chicago is looking for a basic, speeded curriculum; St. Johns does it with "great books"; Columbia and other colleges experiment with broad introductory courses. There have been periodic shifts from area to area, with the humanities losing first to social and then to natural sciences. There have been vogues of cure-alls--"social psychology," "philosophical science." The war has pointed up these sicknesses. And now at Harvard several committees are at work...
...scholars who will work on these committees will study in a strange, student-empty atmosphere. They will not have the advantage of constant undergraduate contact or of such groups as the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure to give them the worm's perspective. There are a few broad outlines they might well remember. Departments, often made rigid by custom and habit, could be kept alive by frequent conferences, with new ideas actually sought after. The large problem of faculty appointments needs attention--getting the right man to teach the right course, getting the great scholars...
Richmond Morcum of New Hampshire was the sensation of the meet as he walked off with three titles tucked under his belt. He took the high jump with a 6 ft., 4 in. leap and the broad jump with a 23 ft., 10 in. effort, and finished a good day's work by triumphing in the pole vault at 14 feet...