Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shell, which was presented to the University boat club by W. C. Baylies '84 was built by Sims, the well-known Putney boat-builder. It is 63 feet in length, 18 inches longer than the shell used at New London last June; and 24 1-2 inches in breadth in-board, one-half inch broader than last year's boat. The seats, according to the English custom, are placed alternately on either side of the centre, each being three inches from the middle line. This makes possible the use of shorter out-riggers, thus diminishing the amount of power lost...
...University. It makes no attempt to confine its list of contributors to the College; it deals with subjects of general public interest as well as with intramural matters; and besides literature it seeks to cultivate the art of the illustrator and to practice topical journalism. While this breadth and diversity of aim give an opportunity for appealing to a wider range of interests, they necessarily make the magazine less characteristic of Harvard, and less illuminating of the life here, than are some of its contemporaries...
...immeasurably enhanced when to goodness and pleasantness is added the gift of genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common men and women, the blessing is still further enhanced. And if combined with genius be a character of exceptional purity, gentleness and graciousness, then the blessing of the presence of such...
...teacher and educator Dean Shaler combined the exacting standards of the old-fashioned school-master with a breadth of view and a progressive spirit which lead him to welcome and vigorously promote all improvements in educational methods. He was one of President Eliot's most active and useful so-workers in the many educational reforms accomplished in the University during the last 35 years...
...appearance only, and that his habit of blunt, direct speech was really the expression of a simple, earnest, democratic nature, scorning all pretense of super-refinement and anxious to meet all upon the terms of absolute equality. He combined the instinct of the true scholar with a wonderful breadth of sympathies and a fellow feeling...