Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With regard to church-going, Harvard men have once more shown themselves to be "Not as other men," and again Harvard University has refused to follow tamely and blindly in the "broad" way of religious indifference. This point Dr. Sperry makes very clear in his annual report on the activities of Memorial Church...
...encourages his students to acquire a broad cultural background by making use of all the opportunities afforded to them as members of Harvard University. This he believes to be important since there has been a tendency in engineering education to stress engineering subject matter almost to the exclusion of other influences...
...them. Born in 1853 of old Delaware stock, he heard from his great-grandmother eyewitness tales of the rout of the Continental Army at Brandywine. When he grew up, Howard Pyle found one of his studios in an old mill near the Pyle ancestral farmhouse on Brandywine Stream. A broad-shouldered, benevolent six-footer, he made his Revolutionary soldiers, pirates, merry men, knights and men-at-arms so nutbrown, brawny and handsome, steeped their adventures in such romantic color, that Theodore Roosevelt lustily approved, frequently had him as a White House guest. In the decade before his death...
...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...
...policemen, politicians and College biddies are all that undergraduates can think of when they hear a reference to Ireland, they have some excuse for their ignorance. For it is a sad fact that Harvard offers no broad, general course dealing directly with either the history or letters of Erin...