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Late in the 19th century, Dillenberger pointed out, President Eliot installed non-Unitarian professors in order to broaden the scholarly character of the school...
...Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer the question...
...associates: a magazine photographer named Milton Greene and her new attorney, Manhattan Lawyer Frank Delaney. "I am going to do some pictures and TV and things," said Marilyn, fluttering her lashes above a low-cut white satin dress. "I want to expand, to get into other fields, to broaden my scope . . . People have scope, you know, they really do." Sipping a glass of sherry ("Its so good for your stomach"), Marilyn disclosed that she would like "to play some strong dramatic parts . . . like Grushenka, in The Brothers Karamazov . . . I don't know [how to spell it]. I only hope...
...suggested that that students should reed their local newspapers and become as quainter with the political situation "We must broaden the base of political interest," he said, "and we must do something about machine monopoly, which threatens civic liberty...
Perhaps one of the greatest stops forward in the program to broaden the base of corporate ownership was taken during the past year with the introduction of the Monthly Investment Plan. This Plan is designed to permit a person to purchase stock out of income--by making regular purchases every month or every quarter. Under M.I.P., as we call it, a person can put as little as $40 a quarter into the stock of his choice. No credit is involved. The purchaser gets just what he has paid for--whether it is 5 shares or 1/5 of a share...