Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Sibelius has finished his eighth symphony (in his boulder-like head; it is not yet completely written down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies...
Leader of this motley crew now is broad-beamed Dr. Mark Arthur May, a psychologist, expert on educational movies and onetime theology instructor. Dr. May, who has been with the Institute since 1931 and its director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...
...most significant aspect of this move to broaden selection from the ranks of university graduates is the change in service examinations from highly specific quizzes to general tests. Thus the government will follow the brilliant example of the English system in requiring of candidates some evidence of broad intellectual attainment instead of technical knowledge. While this method of examination may be an effective bar against the entrance of mediocrities in the service, its use in England proves that it can be undemocratic in excluding the less educated classes. However, the easier accessibility to a college education in this country than...
This was the second of a series of symposia which aim to cross departmental lines by attacking broad subjects from a variety of points of view, The seven who spoke had studied their characters in order to present accurately their opinions, and on the basis of these speeches a discussion ensued in the audience made up largely of tutees in the different fields represented...
...liberal arts colleges. Because the liberal arts colleges expect more of their graduates to enter teaching than any other single profession, liberal arts and teachers' colleges today are deadly competitors. Teachers' colleges are busy awarding points in many professional courses but fail to give their students a broad education. The liberal arts colleges turn out many graduates more interested in scholarship than in the children they are to teach...