Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of mankind, with the scientific view of the universe, with the best in world-literature and the other arts, and with the major concepts of philosophy; and we submit that no youth left free to wander through the college catalogue is likely to compass the fundamentals in this broad field of knowledge. Indeed, it may as well be said that the thing can not be done; for what results can we expect from a system of special courses and free election which abandons to immature and undisciplined minds a labour that is almost beyond the strength of the strongest...
Three letter men, R. D. Gerould '24, Malcolm Morse '24, and R. L. Hyatt '24 are available for the high jump; for the broad jump the most promising candidates are D. J. Quirk '26 and Donald Spencer '26. In the pole-vault event Hyatt and W. T. Reidy '25 are likely to improve their past records which have already been good. Earl Evans '25 and P. A. Altman '26 are expected to do good work...
...Broad Jump...
...fact that C. I. Paulsen '27 leads all other Freshmen in six of the seven field events. In his first day this fall at the high jump he jumped 5 ft. 6 in; he throws the 35 pound weight 43 feet, 6 inches; puts the shot 39 feet; broad jumps 20 feet; and throws the discus 100 feet. He has reached only 10 feet in the pole vault this fall, though he had done 11 feet, 9 inches while still at school. In the seventh event, the javelin throw, he does not excel because he has never competed...
...people of India, with the consent of the Viceroy elected him to present India's case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. In 1921, he went to the Washington Disarmament Conference, as press representative for India. His broad knowledge, cosmopolitan experience and sympathies, and his compelling eloquence and personality have brought him the reputation of being the foremost authority on the cultural, economic and political relations between the East and the West...