Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearby, Henry Lamar sends his eager boxing recruits through their paces. Lamar is a popular coach; boxing, though intramural, is a popular sport.
Meanwhile, in glass-roofed Briggs Cage, Jaako Mikkola and Bill Neufeld speed their large Freshman track squad through its routine, as the long season officially begins.
One of the characteristic features of an American university is the wide range of instruction offered to undergraduates. Almost all academic disciplines are available to the second-year man, at least, and each subject may be pursued through advanced courses almost to the frontiers of knowledge. In Harvard the same...
But at the present moment it is difficult to find two people who can agree on the ideal of a liberally educated man. This much seems certain--such a man should have catholic tastes and many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information...
Harvard's vast empire is nominally governed by an imposing hierarchy ranging from the humble Student Council, through the Faculty Council, Visiting Committees, and Corporation, up to the Board of Overseers, final arbiters of Harvards' destiny.