Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field to the neglect of courses outside this field taken either for distribution or as free electives, or too great concentration in one field in the student's choice of his free electives. The best safeguard against this danger lies in having as tutors men who are of sufficiently broad views and interests to prevent undue specialization: but action by the Faculty last year preventing a man below Group IV of the Rank List from becoming, except in an unusual case, a candidate for distinction was a step towards this end. This rule which did not come into effect until...
...life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked...
...Celia-Cynthia is a criminal. Cynthia-Celia slowly finds out what kind, at the same time falling in love with the returned husband, who is puzzled but suspects no substitution, . . . Out of such stuff did Greek and Roman comedians fashion oldtime sidesplitters. Sometimes the situations were allowed to become broad. Author Webster, deft veteran, had ample ingenuity to twist his twins with the decorum and happy ending required of a first-rate American Magazine serial...
...them. By endowing a number of international scholarships, named for the dead, Harvard would not only satisfy the requirements of the non-church as well as the churchman; she would honor her fallen in a noble and useful endeavor toward training men in the international point of view, in broad sympathies and understanding, so that the lives of young men might not again be sacrificed on the battlefield...
Mirrors and pictures, guiltless of the crime of area, are allowed full freedom of the walls. Such accoutrements, intelligent, it must be admitted, are more feminine than male. Broad-beamed gentlemen denizens remain skeptical of the idea...