Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the others who are expected to swell the Crimson point total are W. C. Peet, '28, quarter-miler. G. W. Smith '29, half-miler, A. E. French, broad-jumper, J. L. Reid, two-miler, N. S. Ballan, tyre '27, low and high hardles, and J. O. Wildes, miler...
...Republican, is, with the possible exception of Senator Borah of Idaho, the foremost liberal in the U. S. Senate. Nearly a quarter century ago, his state sent this farmer lawyer from the plains to the House of Representatives. He was and is homely, unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow Senator from Nebraska...
...CRIMSON feels that this series has been a successful effort in removing certain misunderstandings, since each article has not only examined the broad topic of its own field but also the manner in which that field is treated in Harvard University, including some of the major problems which one encounters in planning a schedule of one's courses. Next Tuesday the President of the University will talk to the Freshmen, proffering counsel which has always proved exceptionally enlightening in the past and which will, doubtless, aid once more in the practical solution of this annual problem...
...former plan of broad fields, encouraged men to choose those in which they could take the most courses, and thus cover the specific subject with the least individual research. A premium was thus placed upon those fields in which much instruction could be obtained, and which formed a large block of in general History examination...
...phase is, of course, being emphasized to a greater extent," added Professor Ferguson, "but this was not a motive in the change. First of all, the department felt that students should get to know the field of their own special concentration better, and we found the old fields too broad to allow this. Also, under the new plan, men can choose more widely without paying a serious penalty for it on the general examination. The entire change was simply a corrective of the situation brought about by the institution of the general examination in History as a whole...