Word: broader
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture rooms. The provision for publishing the results of research will be ample. The plan of forming a special department for this work ought to encourage students and make publications more adequate than they would be with divided responsibility. The extension work as mapped out is also something broader and more systematic than has yet been undertaken...
...outriggers are fitted with the Kerns pins. Mr. Blaikie has finished two singles and one double-scull of the kind called "compromise" boats. Of this pattern also are the three boats built by Davy. This kind of boat is just like a shell in appearance but is much broader and more buoyant so as to stand rough water. Although not so light as shells they are not very much less frail and men using them ought to take great care in handling them...
...twenty from the Harvard Young Men's Christian Association has been appointed to collect money for the purpose of entertaining foreign students at Moody's Summer School at Northfield, Mass. Last year Harvard, Yale and Princeton collected money for this purpose. This year, however, the movement has been broader, and some of the smaller colleges have been asked to contribute also. Harvard's contribution last year was over six hundred dollars, and it is hoped that the sum will not fall below that figure this year. Foreign colleges have been asked to sent representatives to the meetings this year...
...tendency to provincialism it is difficult to see. Men do not come to Harvard because the nine plays Princeton twice a year in New Jersey; nor because thirty men compete in the games at New York every spring. The influences which make Harvard a national university are much broader and deeper, and will be little affected by the restriction of athletics to a reasonable area...
...their contests with the representatives of other colleges. It is useless to hope that the old class feeling, and the intensity it gave to the athletic spirit, will ever come back; nor is it desirable that it should. Our athletics must in the future be conducted on a broader basis than they have been in the past. They are now rapidly coming to be regarded as one of the means to the great end of education-broad and systematic culture of all the faculties-and not as an end in themselves, worthy of cultivation for themselves primarily. This, of course...