Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject of public v. private control, he is fervently committed to the idea that private property as well as persons should be subject to conscription in the Empire's emergency. Last week the Briton-on-the-street was inclined to agree with the Manchester Guardian, which growled: "The broad principles and purpose of the plan will arouse no criticism. It is twelve or eighteen months overdue, that...
...perfect downhill course would have at least one big schuss (straightaway) for speeds of 60 m.p.h., or better; a second, gentler schuss, full of bumps; a broad, winding glade through rocks and trees...
...problem must lie somewhere between the two extremes of absolute freedom for the school, and rigid examination requirements by the college. The College Entrance Board seems at present to be tending toward a mean itself, fortunately, with Harvard's cooperation. Its examinations are more and more becoming the broad survey type, offering questions for students with all sorts of backgrounds of knowledge, and emphasizing close reasoning rather than accumulation of facts. the new mathematics achievement tests which have replaced exams in the special field of math are one example. So are the combined modern history and government, and the combined...
Examinations by an outside agency are an invaluable aid to admissions authorities in comparing the abilities of students with differing educational backgrounds. They are injurious to high school education only when they stultify it. A broad and more flexible exam program, testing ability rather then information, deserves the whole-hearted encouragement of all educators...
...well as facts. Thus it is advisable as an introduction to the field to take such survey courses as History 1 and English 1 and background courses in Philosophy, Fine Arts and Sociology. With a background made up of several disciplines the students is able to cope with the broad cultural approach demanded. At the same time Junior Divisionals make it imperative that the concentrator sink his teeth into the main meat of his special field during Sophomore year...