Word: broader
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...accomplish its purposes without the help of a special library. The new library will form one of the many special libraries at Harvard. As the University has grown during the past few years, the establishment of these libraries has been rapid. They are fulfilling the objects which the broader interests of the University are continually demanding...
...never been used. Exactly why the men have generously given up their rights to the boat house is not clear. Perhaps they have not seen their own self interest in the matter: perhaps they are not in sympathy with this movement to put athletic sports at Harvard on a broader basis...
...sports. It was this feeling which President Ellot had in mind when he said in his Annual Report-"the main object of intercollegiate races and competitive contests is to increase the number of students who habitually take part in manly sports." It was, we repeat, to bring about this broader and better state of things that Mr. Weld madehis generous gift. Although, perhaps, he had in mind principally the general educational advantages of athletics, it is certain that his plans if carried out will go far forwards gaining for us immediate success over our opponents. It is our part...
...hands. Besides our inward supplication to God, we should strive by our own deeds to make the University to which we belong better and nobler than when we found it. College men should lead not merely their own private, selfish lives, but they should live in the broader life of the University, and do their best to keep alive and promote all the higher interests which belong to an institution like Harvard...
...cultivation of such precepts together with the daily trying to improve one's condition tend to produce in one renewed strength. These are the central things of religion. Some ecclesiastics forbid dancing, going to the theatres and like amusements. These are but side issues, It is the broader principles, those that cover larger bounds which will give one increased physical and mental power and so more strength...