Word: broader
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...member of the class of '95 who is not now in Cambridge wrote thus in a letter received recently, of his connection with the union; "I learned more in my work there in the last two years than I could have learned from a hundred books, and I feel broader and better for my experience. The union I shall always look upon as one of the chief formative influences of my college career." There are a hundred and more recent graduates from Harvard who would bear similar testimony...
...Athletic Committee has granted the use of the University colors to the members of the lacrosse team. The design is similar to that of the Mott Haven team, except that the upper line of black is broader and the lower proportionately narrower...
...plan is now under consideration of abandoning the present system of indicating a student's rank in his courses by the letters A, B, C, D, and E, and of substituting for it a broader division into three general grades. The change would be for the better, just as formerly the change from per cent. marking was doubtless an improvement. In estimating a student's work it is almost impossible to draw very fine distinctions between the different grades. When it comes to a variation of a few per cent., the absurdity of attempting it is apparent; and the difficulty...
...conservative element, viz., that of the home. - (c) It purifies politics. - (1) Women pay more attention to morals. - (2) Have higher sense of honor. - (3) Not led by impulse, e.g., their overthrow of Populists in Kansas. - (d) Accords with general movement of suffrage, viz., greater numbers brings broader point of view...
William Edward Hutton made the second speech for Harvard. He claimed that the evils which exist have no vital connection with a broader franchise. He cited Berlin with 13 per cent. of men of voting age denied the franchise and New York 26 per cent. He claimed that $500 worth of property or the paying of annual rent of $250 would be a reasonable qualification amount...