Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been the head coach at Phillips-Exeter Academy, where he has had unusual success in developing material and building up teams. The committee also ratified the appointment of M. F. Sweeney as general athletic adviser at Yale. He was the former holder of the world's championship in the broad-jump, and for the last few years has been the athletic coach at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The following men were appointed to the graduate advisory committee, to have full charge of that sport, and answerable only to the Football Association and the Faculty of the university...
...Agreement it is urged that under its provisions the University maintains complete control over the expenditure of the income of the McKay Endowment, and also over the administration and regulation of the education, as represented by Harvard degrees, to be furnished under the co-operative plan. The broad discrimination admitted to Harvard by Gordon McKay's will is believed to give the University a free hand in choosing the instrumentalities by which the education is to be furnished, so long as Harvard maintains complete power to direct those instrumentalities. Further considerations are that although Gordon McKay by an earlier will...
...conversely, few Americans have heard that Argentina has a university established twenty-three years before Harvard was in existence. Still, when our entire nation's acquaintance with Spanish America is slight, and when the University possibly ranks no better than fourth among American institutions in its southern influence, our broad considerations are backed up by some selfish desire to take the lead...
...committee has also recommended Michael Sweeney, former champion broad-jumper of the world, and later athletic coach at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., as football and track athletic counsellor...
...remedy this defect that the tutorial system was instituted. The broad field was divided into narrower ones, and tutors were assigned in order that the work of the student in co-ordinating his courses, in shaping his work toward a definite end, might be made easier, and at the same time more complete...