Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chief argument in favor of the change has been that it will broaden the influence of the University, and will tend to unite the departments; the argument on the other side has been that the graduates of the schools either owe allegiance to other colleges or have not had the advantages of college training...
...York, there is every reason to hope that within a few weeks the plan announced for forming a Graduate Athletic Association will become a practical reality. The value of such an organization, efficiently managed, will increase each year of its existence, and its field of usefulness should continually broaden...
...proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success in the intercollegiate debates, but because it will help to broaden the field and increase the good results of Harvard's system of instruction in public speaking, in which the intercollegiate debates are but attendant events of minor importance, not the ends in themselves of that training...
...harmful influence thus exerted by the college, ultimately reacts on the college. The freshman classes enter with very strong athletic propensities, and too often with correspondingly weak interest in intellectual pursuits. It becomes the work of the college not to develop right ideals, but to cultivate them; not to broaden the field in which mental activity has to play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion...
...institution like Harvard, with its traditions and its long line of well-known graduates, are apt to forget that work just as noble, if not so prominent, is being done by smaller institutions which deal with humbler classes of people. Lectures on subjects like this tend to broaden views and stimulate kindly feelings and no man who takes a liberal view of education can afford to miss them. We bespeak for Mr. Turner a cordial reception from the students and a kindly interest in the subject which he will present...