Word: widener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as British holders of Dawes and Young loan bonds are concerned (see p. 15). This breach in the Moratorium Front looked certain to widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control of the Fatherland's whole economic life. While the Press kept up a fanfare about the King of Siam...
...atmosphere as Harvard and Yale. The average Harvard student would get much more benefit out of spending his Junior year at some college outside New England, either in this country or abroad, than he would out of spending it at Yale. Such a plan would do much to widen the undergraduate's range of experience and to remove a certain narrowness of outlook too of ten associated with the designation "Harvard man." As for the practical difficulties offered by the differences in academic standards, they could readily be overcome by an Administration really convinced of the advantages of the plan...
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...necessity for language requirements, in some form, is obvious enough. Intelligent study, whether in arts or in sciences, demands ready access to great quantities of material not available in English. Beyond this practical consideration is the need to widen the intellectual horizon of the student through a mastery of the thought and expression of another race. More patent, perhaps, and more often questioned is the habit of mental exactness which the study of a foreign syntax develops. The present requirements fulfill all but the last of these needs very imperfectly; the standards of knowledge are not sufficiently advanced to insure...
...include the Freshman, and to connect him as permanently as possible with those he may meet or chance to know in the higher classes. Just as the introduction of inter-House eating practically re-made the social relationships of upperclassmen, a parallel change, as here suggested, would greatly widen and enrich the Freshman sphere of activity. Chiefly by bringing such influences to bear in the very first year, can the still evident class lines in the Houses be broken down...