Word: broading
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...types of universities abroad, why should there not be an American type? Harvard has certain functions to perform, and if they differ from those of a German university, Harvard ought not to be forced to conform to a German standard. Harvard aims to give her students culture in a broad sense, improve their moral character, and not merely offer them a chance to study as German universities do. As for our professors they must soon be given their true rank abroad as our university becomes better known and its organization better understood. That Harvard is rapidly securing recognition...
...Running broad jump...
...competitors should be from five to ten, and that if Yale chose a course near New Haven she should allow Harvard $8.00 per man, or receive $8.00 per man if she chose a course near Cambridge. Even these conditions have now been removed, and have left the challenge as broad and unqualified as it possibly could be made...
...governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks, a course which tends towards anything but broad thought and careful work...
...Shearman, Yale '89, who has been taking a post graduate course at Yale, has recently left college. For the past four years Shearman has been a prize winner at the intercollegiate games and this year Yale expected him to win the pole vault and the broad jump. With Sherrill in the dashes and Elcock in the hammer and shot contests, Yale was thought to have a good chance for five firsts. Now, however, the prospect is not so bright, as Carey of Princeton will prove a formidable opponent in the dashes, and as Janeway of Princeton has recently beaten Elcock...