Word: broader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details in parliamentary meetings and what is more important, lead to a broader view of the whole length and breadth of the different interests of a country so large...
...college students, that they are always to be found on the side of progress and in favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale, if we may judge from the tone of her press, in the successive steps taken by Harvard towards a broader university system. Concerning the recent appointment of a faculty committee of conference at Harvard, the Record moralizes; "Harvard has made many and frequent changes in her educational policy during the past few years, and these seem to have led and to be leading to other and more decisive innovations...
...immediate effect of co-education to destroy this element of college life at Harvard, we do not believe; that such would be the ultimate result seems very probable. But that such a result would be altogether an unmixed evil, provided that for the narrower college spirit a broader university spirit were substituted, may perhaps be questioned...
...Harvard, at least in former years, has produced more writing men than her practical and sturdy rival. It was the custom of the elder sort to carry their literary wares to the market town adjacent. The new generation, however, with the keen instinct of youth, perceives that a broader life, a surer market, a more various intellectual growth, are to be gained in the national metropolis. Harvard men are thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic...
...corps of contributors includes the names of almost all of Harvard's professors in the department of science, besides all the prominent scientific specialists at other colleges and throughout the country. Its aim is to be an acceptable organ of the scientific men of America in a similar but broader sense than Nature is for those of England...