Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...including such an officer among the fellows of Harvard just at this time when the generous response of alumni the world over has carried the Harvard campaign for endowment to all but its final triumphant conclusion, is too evident to need comment When one considers also the new breadth of representation which Mr. Byrne brings to the board in his capacity as the first Catholic ever elected to be a member of the Harvard corporation, the interest of his appointment stands revealed in its totality. --Boston Transcript...
Professor Johnston was attached to the General Staff at Pershing's Headquarters for more than a year, making a number of intimate visits to the active front, and acting as special envoy to Paris and London. His work retains an unusual breadth of point of view...
...need is still greater of a man who has the breadth of view necessary to cope adequately with the great problems both at home and abroad which now confront the nation. Mr. Hoover has clearly shown that he has this breadth of view, and I cannot see that one of the other possible presidential candidates has shown it. While other candidates have taken refuge in platitudes, he has announced in no uncertain terms the policies to which he adheres. They speak the language of the era of McKinley; his mind is concerned with the problems of today...
...whole treaty--the future stability of the world--is threatened by the brazen refusal of Senator Lodge to move a hair's breadth. A few meaningless differences in words is all that stands between agreement on the article ten reservation and peace. The Democrats have come nine-tenths of the way, but still the Republicans stand adamant, flaunting their power in the face of a universal demand for ratification. Under the contemptible guise of "Americanism," selfish political considerations are blocking the road to world peace...
...time when his ideas are still unset a man can learn to appreciate the point of view of the other fellow and get a better perspective on life. Such a perspective is fundamental to the liberty and freedom for which America has always stood. Tolerance and a breadth of view are the chief values to be gained from a college education, and nowhere as in our universities is it possible so easily to learn these values. If Columbia is really able to inculcate in here students a clearer perspective by her new method of teaching history, and to make curriculum...