Word: widener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realm of higher learning no attempt has been made to bridge the gap between legal thinking and other branches of learning, such as history and philosophy, on which the law depends. President Conant's plan for "university professors", men who have all knowledge for their province, should widen the horizons of departments which have tended to inbreed and have lost the perspective that a broad intellectual outlook gives. For the Law School is not only a trade school for lawyers, but also a temple of legal scholarship, and the relation between the law and other fields of human endeavor should...
...Harvard press can widen its scope, printing, naturally, works by members of the faculty, yet including subjects of broader interest than specialized research, it can have a very great part to play in maintaining that note of progressive liberality which Harvard so ably sounded at the Tercentenary. As edition of American classics, an anthology or even a Companion to American Verse would awaken interest immensely in both the American classics and the University press itself...
...commented on the extreme complexity of the science of psychology, due to the intricacy of the human psyche itself. In closing, he paid tribute to the mentality of William James, of whom he said: "It was his comprehensive mind which made me realize that the horizons of human psychology widen into the immeasurable...
...exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally, in 1928, Venizelos cashed in his popularity for one more Premiership, made alliances with Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal, reasserted the Mediterranean policy of a true island Greek...
...Thus various Harvard instructors have already aligned themselves on the side of Dr. Hanfstaengl. In their telegrams of sympathy to him they demand for young American students the right to study freely in a land of such great scientific and cultural traditions as Germany and to be allowed to widen their scope in this way. Moreover, the Harvard Club of Berlin--which is a union of former Harvard students--will busy itself next Friday with this affair...