Word: broader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quite impossible to summarize the results of all the examinations or show the light in which the individual students regarded them. There appears, however, to be a very general idea among the upper-classmen that the examination papers were constructed on a broader basis this year than heretofore. The instructors made the scope of their questions wider and thus gave the students a chance to assert their knowledge or to disclose their ignorace in a more manly and scholarly way. The nature of the papers must of necessity vary greatly with the subject matter and some studies would not allow...
...movement toward a higher and broader system of education in Harvard to day, and in particularly the attempts which are being made this year to rid the present system of puerile restrictions and conditions, show their effect nowhere more forcibly than in some of the examination papers prepared for the present mid-year examinations...
...society, whose aim shall be to bring together more intimately, professor and student. I observed a comment on this same suggestion in one of the Boston papers of to-day, which seems to touch the matter closely. Now that we are a full-fledged university with that larger and broader freedom which attends such station, it is wise to merit this big title by a character equally as big. Do the professors of Harvard wish to become intimate with its students, are they anxious to offer some more personal assistance than mere lecture room intercourse affords? Mr. Wendell says they...
...Dwight's administration. But we sincerely hope that that beneficence will not end at the purchase of buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work than is possible for a college as such. Her methods may now without shame to her children, embrace teaching that is distinctively "university" so far as that term comprehends an advance over the old-time collegiate instruction. The instruction which lays down rules now long proved...
...would be too terrible if it were not so. It is terrible that it is not so to hosts of workers in their drudgeries. Alas for the man who is not growing into broader sympathy with men the longer that he does his special work. Alas for the institution that does not feel all life clamorous and profuse about it the longer that it goes on building its little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action...