Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broad extension of the American program for cultural reconstruction of Germany was called for in an interview yesterday by Alenze Grace, Director of the Educational and Cultural Division of the German Military Government...
...Oklahoma!" quite so lovely as "Bali Hai," and nothing quite so boisterously whacky as "A Hundred And One Pounds of Fun," which contains, among other phrases of equal distinction, one that goes like this: "Where she is narrow she's as narrow as an arrow, and she's broad where a broad should be broad." There is also a bevy of ballads, "Some Enchanted Evening" being the most persistently plugged, and probably the best, among them...
Concerning the way in which Professor Taylor and Professor Karpovitch have handled the course--I think they have done a magnificent job. They have stressed broad understanding rather than petty detail or a number of arbitrary points. They have asked no questions that are not obviously important after one careful reading of the assignment. As for the dates and map assignments, unlike those in every other history course I have taken, they were (1) easy, (2) helpful as hooks on which to hang more facts, (3) helpful as a way of making all migrations, territorial changes, etc., more meaningful...
...leading motive behind these post-war changes was the realization that there are two distinctly different demands for an introductory course in every department. The concentrator in that department wants the basic tools for future study, and the non-concentrator wants a broad picture and general understanding of the field. At many points these demands conflict; the usual practice was to ignore the non-concentrator. The Economics Department's solution to the problem is to divide its elementary course into two different types of sections--for concentrators and non-concentrators. Non-concentrator sections have eliminated such subjects as analysis...
...with a 53 feet, 11 1/2 inch toss; and Howard Reed placed fourth with a heave of 51 feet 5 7/8 inches; Donald Trimble finished fifth in the shotput with a throw of 48 feet, 9 inches; David Carter jumped 22 feet, 6 inches to place third in the broad jump; and John Harrigan was tied for fifth place in the high jump with Roger Hillas of Dartmouth. Both cleared 6 feet...