Word: broadness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...general outline of physics to the man who is satisfying his distribution requirement of who feels that he would like an understanding of the scope and importance of physics. These two requirements are too diverse to be met by the same course. The course is too technical and not broad enough for those undergraduates of the second mentioned type. The hysteresis curve of the generator is taught, while personal experience brings to light the fact that from the professor down to the instructor there was no one who could answer the simple question as to how many volts are used...
...Lundell '27, winner of the 220-yard dash in the Princeton meet last spring, F. P. Kane '26, quarter miler and hurdler, J. H. Broome '26, broad jumper and quarter miler, H. A. Secrist '27, broad jumper, Lee Combs, pole vaulter, S. D. Jones '27, high jumper, and J. M. Potter '26 will add strength to the Crimson track hopes...
Their allusions to specific courses aside, these criticisms taken as a whole have a broad significance. They throw certain light upon the general problem of education, revealing a few important truths about students, professors, and the nature of the relation between the two. Most of the critical reviews show evidence of sincerity on the part of the students in the task they set for themselves in coming to college. In every course they sought a certain object. Where they found it most abundantly, they lavished their praise; where they gleaned in vain, they confessed disappointment. The object so tirelessly sought...
...student entering Harvard, if he would make his college life both happy and profitable, must learn to reconcile seeming opposites. He must fit into the general scheme of things, and at the same time preserve his individuality. This is possible only where a spirit of broad tolerance prevails. Of this relation of Harvard to the individual, Dean Briggs has said...
...opera nights the broad Avenida de Mayo, famed Fifth Avenue of Buenos Aires, purrs with the opulent Panhards, Renaults, Minervas of opera bound millionaires. The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars. From the Loterias, orthodox and legal vendors of chance, stream the fortunate, to cash their winnings, for a stall, a box, in La Colon...