Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...think thoroughly and independently, though he does gain this power through it, but that be come by to realize that in almost all questions of the day the other man has nearly as good a right to his opinion as he has to his. Recognition of this facts means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here is where intercollegiate debating may prove something of a nuisance. It exists for the purpose of winning something, and therefore the undergraduate--not the coaches--wonders whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball...
...broad jump, Spraker has gone over 22 feet frequently. Devon has a record of 22 feet 6 inches. J. B. Thomas '02, the hurdler is fairly sure for 22 feet, although he fell considerably below this in the fall games...
...details in the conduct of school affairs were criticised without a knowledge of the significance of these details. Some of the criticisms were recognized as just and some were considered not so, because the critics failed to take the right point of view. Teachers were urged to form a broad outlook, and to make their activity bear directly on social progress,--not limiting their work to the class room, but seeing it in its relation to other things, besides the individual scholar...
...Broad jump--Harvard: J. H. Shirk '02, first; C. D. Daly '01, second...
...conclusion Mr. Straus said that he does not advocate an abridgment of the American doctrines of citizenship and expatriation which are so consonant with principles of personal liberty, but that he does believe it advisable to eliminate from citizenship that class of persons who take advantage of the broad and general provisions of our naturalization laws, not for the purpose of residing in the United States, nor with the intention to respond to the duties of citizenship, but to return to their native country, and through their acquired citizenship escape the burdens of their native allegiance...