Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter further states: "If you oppose America's entrance into foreign war, you will want this check on the broad powers delegated to the President in the Lease-lend bill," Robert J. M. Matteson, the school of Public Administration, president of the organization, and Thomas Lacey 2nd, secretary, signed the circular...
...liberally educated students, and one of the most pertinent of the claims has dealt with the over-concentration allowed by the lenient rules on distribution. The Student Council recognized this defect in the present system in its Education Committee report of last June which proposed a system of five broad, introductory courses to be required of all students. Now before the Faculty is a report from its Committee on Distribution which proposes a different solution designed to remedy this Achilles' heel in Harvard's educational system...
This new plan, although it is not nearly as comprehensive as that suggested by the Council Committee, will certainly tend to prevent the undergraduate from avoiding a broad education. It will force him to acquaint himself with the different types of academic approach: that of the humanities as well as that of science. Although it will affect only a small fraction of the students in every class, it will make it virtually impossible for a Senior to graduate from Harvard without a liberal education...
...Broad changes in the Biology Department, designed to liberalize the rules for concentrators and to rearrange and alter some of the courses, are now being considered by the Department and Faculty, it was learned last night. These changes would take effect beginning with the Class...
Whatever was up, the R. A. F.'s growing invasion-busting offensive was out to stop it before it got started. Escorted by fast, hard-hitting Hurricanes and Spitfires, Blenheims of the Bomber Command struck in broad daylight at docks and shipping in Flushing, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais. At night even stronger formations coventrized Hanover two nights in a row, pouring explosives and incendiaries into factories and oil stores. More patrols swept the coast constantly from Scandinavia to southern France, looking for trouble. Berlin obliquely if mendaciously admitted the weight of the raids by claiming...