Word: broader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee of the alumni of Harvard have issued their annual circular containg a list of names suggested for candidacy to the board of overseers. As usual, the list is made up almost wholly of Boston names. With many others, I have long shared the opinion that a broader circle should be represented. The board, as at present constituted, contains only two members, Messrs. Sargent and Weld, both of New York, outside of what I may be permitted to call, in no invidious sense, "the Boston ring." There seems to be no reason why the outgoing members, eligible for re-election...
This spring the Oxford University crew experimented with a new set of oars, designed by the Rev. E. Warre. These oars after a peculiar fashion and their strangeness consists in their being much broader near the shoulder than at the extreme end of the blade. The advantage claimed for them is that the whole blade takes the water at once, instead of only a small corner of it-as is the case of some men with the oars now in use-also that the whole blade leaves the water at once, thus minimizing the chance of feathering under water...
...languages and science does not so directly touch upon the question of the development of the university idea from the college idea as do some others. No other change of course would be so radical a change as that advocated by the latter party. It is in itself a broader question than that of the elective system, but with the freshman year abolished, it would not directly affect the practical question of the Harvard curriculum. The agitation, we believe, can result in no other outcome than that of compromise; not however a compromise based on the extremist doctrines of President...
...year the preferences of the senior class are Harvard, 15; Yale, 12; all others, 11; and of the middle class, Harvard, 16; Yale, 8; all others, 11. This would seem to indicate that Phillips Andover is rapidly deserting Yale with its somewhat antiquatedor, at least, inflexible-curriculum, for the broader opportunities for study offered by Harvard. Whether or no the change is a permanent one the future will decide. The cause, though, is not so hard to determine. So far as we have been able to judge, the underlying motive which influences our students to choose Harvard is mainly...
...sense a certain loss of time, energy and money. We do not believe that the higher education of the country should be concentrated in one, or oven in very few institutions. Every section should have its central college of liberal arts as a promotive to a broader education of the masses below. But the very best opportunities from simple economic reasons can only be offered in some few central universities of all sciences. It is these universities that are too often neglected for the sake of lesser and less important sectional colleges...