Word: broader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges. It is undeniable that the modern languages are of supreme importance for men in our age of free intercourse of nations. It is also true that the modern languages have great and beautiful literatures that are well worth studying and enjoying. The classics on their part have the broader claim of being the foundation on which all that has followed has been built. They are full of the greatest beauties, the sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely for the other...
...been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs, the tendency to treat students like men instead of boys, the founding of new schools of learning in intimate connection with the main body of the college, all of these have contributed to give the right to the broader title of university. Surely nothing can be more indicative of the healthy demand for a liberal education, by the young men of the present generation than the statistics shown in a careful perusal of the new Harvard catalogue. The University is now in a time of unparalleled vigor; the elective...
...realization of the truth that during the past few years the strides made in all the departments of science and literature have been very great, but in no direction has this advance become more manifest than in the progress of learning at the different colleges. The faculties have adopted broader principles, giving the students a larger scope in the selection of studies, and the number of courses in the different schools have been constantly enlarged. In nearly all the radical changes which have occurred, Harvard has led the way, yet never has this been shown better than in the elective...
...current number of "Lippincott's Magazine" an admirable essay on "Social Life at Princeton," written by E. M. Hopkins, '88, of that college. Though the individual features of college life may vary quite considerably in the Eastern colleges, it is noticeable that there is but little fluctuation in the broader lines. Men are the same all the world over, and why should we expect the students of one college to be afflicted with greater sins or gifted with greater virtues than those of another. We live a very self-absorbed life here at Harvard, and our contact with other colleges...
...first place it would lead to a better, more thorough knowledge of some of the famous old playwrights than the average Harvard student now has; and, as we stated before, it would promote the study of elocution, the art of good delivery, of proper gesticulation to a higher and broader level than they hold to-day in the University. Then the association would materially aid the athletic organizations in a financial way. To quote from our columns of yesterday...