Word: widener
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought to help redeem the summer vacation, now so striking an anomaly in an age of conservation. It ought to stimulate a more generous reading...
...hoped that in these last two days of the drive everyone will co-operate give all they can to help the Brooks House widen the scope of its service in spite of the disorganized and unsettled state of conditions. Last year's total amount contributed was over forty-five hundred dollars, and unless quick response from its friends old and new, is forthcoming this year's drive may fail to reach one-half of that amount...
...degree to those who have been educated at universities where two classical languages are not compulsory. When once the "previous examination" is passed the "ordinary" student usually proceeds to take one or more special examinations. It is suggested to increase the number of these and generally to widen the curriculum. New subjects may be introduced and regrouping will probably follow...
...University Professors, and may even have been so intended. It is true that the association report did quite sharply divide the members of the teaching force from the members of the collegiate boards of trustees, and that in view of the division there is urgent need not to widen the gulf between by such false attitude toward it as President Meiklejohn so sharply denounced. The professor who goes sanctimoniously about loving himself as an unspoiled disciple of truth the while he sneers inwardly at the trustees who must be concerned with the search after money to pay him his salary...
...that by individual educational organizations, fulfills a necessary function. To be qualified to enter this field efficiently the Economics Department lacks a prime necessity, some form of endowment. Until it receives financial backing, similar, perhaps, to that of the Physics Department, this comparatively undeveloped branch of the University cannot widen the scope of its research work...