Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...various sports. These are symptomatic of the efforts of the undergraduate mind to solve the problems in which it is interested. The educational value of these efforts to analyse living, moving problems is easily overlooked by those whose interest centers in philological, historical, and mathematical problems. A genuinely broad mind, however, will not pronounce too hastily upon the comparative value of different kinds of mental effort, or effort devoted to the solution of different kinds of problems. If one finds, for example, that the Aroostook farmers talk about potato growing, and the western farmers about cattle feeding as incessantly...
...purely economic, for it is urged that each of the two schools has resources which would be of service if thrown open to the other. Moreover, competition, which in the nature of the case is particularly weakening to colleges, would be done away with. An alliance on a broad basis of mutual helpfulness, with the application of this cooperation limited at first to graduate students, is the recommendation put forth by President Maclaurin. The suggested relationship is in no sense a merger. In fact, the success of the scheme may be said to depend on the continued separation...
...large organ of making the tone oppressively heavy and overpowering successfully avoided. Yet the life, buoyancy and moving power of the mass of tone has been abundantly maintained. Those in charge of the work declare that the aim of furnishing the Chapel with an instrument worthy of its environment, broad in scope and varied in resource, has been fully realized...
...thirty-five feet above ground. It is proposed to remove the loam from the territory to be covered by the field and stands, then to excavate the material from the field and use it for constructing an embankment; the inner slope to be cut into steps which are broad and low. These steps are to be protected by a granolithic covering like a sidewalk and curb. On these are to be built wood benches with a back, and a foot rest to raise the feet from the concrete. The outside of the embankment is to be made on a slope...
...handicap broad jump competition held in the Cage yesterday afternoon W. L. Allen, Jr., '14, scratch, secured first place with J. A. Garvey '14, handicap 6 in., and J. O. Johnstone '16, scratch, in second and third places respectively. Allen's actual jump was for a distance of 21 feet, 4 3-4 inches...