Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation of the turning back toward a more serious interest in the curriculum proper and away from the extra-curriculum activities in recent years would be a fascinating and enlightening subject for careful study. For the moment it does not matter. The swing is actually going on. In its broad sweep it was discussed and approved by Professor Lovett. Quite happily Professor Edgell has placed the Reading Period Plan in its proper relationshiup with the general tendency...
Half a century or more ago Harvard was under the kind of leadership which could feel and understand the broad sweep of educational history before it was made. So Harvard made history herself. She was in the forefront of the great metamorphosis which freed the American university of the eighteenth century and pushed it ahead into the twentieth within three decades...
...departments of ART, MUSIC, EDUCATION, RELIGION, SPORT, SCIENCE, most of the events chronicled have happened in the United States. Does nothing of importance in these spheres happen in Canada, in Europe, in any other parts of the world? Or do you consider your readers not intelligent enough or broad-minded enough to be interested in foreign affairs, in events outside the United States...
...Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale track representatives six events have been added to the usual college list and all of these except the 220 yard dash have been incorporated in the meet between these joint teams. Thirty years ago the emphasis was largely on running events, the high and broad jumps and two weight throws being the only field contests. But even these seemed too many to the purely track athlete of the nineties and one of the recommendations of the Oxford-Cambridge challenge was that a half mile be substituted for one of the weight throws...
...cause. At the bottom of many political victories is the well-organized machine. And this too will not be seen in Washington. The machine, depending on the size of the candidate's campaign contributions and on the skill with which he handles the patronage in his district, is the broad foundation stone on which most office holders rest and which is seldom seen in Washington...