Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like English 1 and History 1, the language beginners nibble ruefully on lean and rather unappetizing fare. The main obstacle to an improvement in their educational diet is the blind insistence on "reading" as the sole basis and final end of a study of language. This insistence narrows potentially broad studies to mere intellectual workouts. Yet the College requirement of a reading knowledge forces most undergraduates to take this program...
...with a cool, scholarly, finely whetted mind, she lives at Ibstone House, in the county of Buckinghamshire, 36 miles from London. There she prefers to be known as Mrs. Andrews. Ibstone is an 18th Century manor house whose back windows command one of the noblest vistas in southern England-broad fields falling away to a deep valley in the Chiltern Hills. Around the house lies the 85-acre farm, where the Andrewses raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern dairy equipped with electric milkers. Miss West has been known...
...thousand three hundred University students yesterday voted two to one to delete broad from on meal a day, to forego pie on day per week, and to cut wheat cereals from their breakfasts three days out of seven...
...these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base of general knowledge. This is the avowed purpose of the system for concentration and distribution of undergraduate studies...
...program, a result of widespread objections to President Eliot's system of free electives, was designed to eliminate the opportunities for poor planning and overspecialization that characterized Eliot's regime. The new system, instituted by President Lowell, intended to turn out broad-minded graduates as well as scholars and proposed to make a place for the man aiming towards a general education. It hoped to achieve this goal through a prescription of form, a planning of student programs within certain set limits...