Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every concept of a true liberal education. It is to set up as absolute one interpretation of a problem that is at best highly contestable and contested. There has never been an agreement among experts as to whether the essentials of the humane tradition lie in a common broad and necessarily superficial survey, or in the experience and technique that come from exploring all angles of a single problem. Whichever the answer, it is certainly more in the liberal spirit to allow the individual to make his own choice between the Council's proposed test tube culture courses...
During a recent conference on "Emergency Protection of Works Of Art" held at the Fogg Museum, a broad program for care of art objects in war time was laid out and a detailed pamphlet on the subject issued, an article in the Alumni Bulletin appearing tomorrow relates...
...came, increasing mechanization meant that Harvard could not again become a training camp, and students turned to specialized technical courses, or waited for the draft to catch up with them. Preparing the University for war seemed to mean turning it into a trade school. For immediate usefulness the broad highway to learning looked suspiciously like a blind alley...
...give future officers a college education has changed this picture completely. Once scorned "cultural" subjects are now recognized as vital weapons. And with this change in attitude on the part of the Armed Forces, we must change our own attitude as well. We cannot afford to neglect the broad common content of our education, since we have seen that it is at last equally as important as electronics or industrial administration. Prospective infantry lieutenants who have come here to learn to think clearly and to acquire perspective must not be sidetracked into the mere memorization of facts, however practical...
...structure is built. Instead, each of the individual performances--Walter Pidgeon as the town clergyman, Donald Crisp as the courageous head of the Morgan family, Maureen O'Hara as his daughter, Roddy McDowall as Huw Morgan, through whose words the story is told--forms a part of the broad pattern which the film so effectively presents...