Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learned through unfortunate experience that the men to be consulted, although eager to assist, are already overburdened. As a substitute and feeling the need of aid, he seeks a course that will help in his work, and finds that except for intensive studies of individual authors, or very broad Comparative Literature outlines, nothing is available. Men who must work in the Classics are further hindered by the lack of courses in which the works are treated in English translation...
...student a more comprehensive grasp of the true significance of the books they were reading. In any case, the present system is unsatisfactory, and, unless some action is taken to lessen the general indefinite feeling about the new requirements, the plan that should prove an aid to a truly broad education, will become nothing more than an additional obstacle in the path to a degree...
...university is to be something more than a more trade school, if it is to foster a broad education and a cosmopolitan point of view, all undergraduates must be free to take part in those phases of college life which are not included in the curriculum. The charge that the scientific mind is usually self-centered is not altogether without foundation; absorbed in his experiments, the student of the natural philosophy too often loses sight of the world around him. It should be possible to place the student in the science group upon a par with his classmates...
...results of the University's meets with the results of the Yale Interclass meet, which was held on Monday, show that on a basis of actual performance the teams are about evenly matched. The two would have split even on first places; the University winning the 100, shot put, broad jump, hammer throw and high hurdles: Yale winning the mile, the quarter, the half, the high jump and the low hurdles, while the 220 and the pole vault would have been tied. Second and third places would have been about evenly distributed. In actual competition, however, it is probable that...
...true that they light their own cigarette and then blow out the match. The rumor that they pass their classmates without speaking has no foundation in fact. And lastly, they are amply endowed with a broad sense of humor, and laugh heartily at the traditional quips aimed at their university...