Word: broader
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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British colored citizens were maltreated, and in the law British subjects received unfair treatment. These two facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
...manifestation. Religion is rather the "pressing forward toward the mark of our high calling in Christ Jesus our Lord." It is this intention, graven on the heart, that changes a man's life. It is a mistake to call any weak man well-meaning, since, in the higher and broader sense, if a man means well he will do well. A man interested in athletics shows it in his bearing and conversation. Similarly, if Christ is the centre of a man's thought he naturally grows into a life of righteousness and self-sacrifice, and shows it in his outward...
...undergraduates which he has occupied. For during the years of his teaching he has offered to hundreds of men who have found their way to Harvard an opportunity for coming into personal relations with literature and art-with the Fine Arts. He has helped students without end to a broader and more enlightened sense of the best that has been known and conceived in the world, and has always upheld the most noble and pure ideals of art and conduct...
...poem by J. F. Brice was very well received, and covered a broader field of attack than his "binding" verses at the class dinner last year...
...concerned we would recommend the elective. We believe that no prescribed course even though counting toward a degree, would receive the general endorsement that would an elective, and further an elective course offers much broader posibilities. Inevitably any prescribed system must be carried on along certain restricted lines, while many alternatives may be offered in an elective, and men enabled to choose their favorite form of exercise. For instance, not only would those training for the athletic teams be excused from any fixed form of exercise, but tennis, boxing, fencing, golf, bicycling, could be taken into account, and even geological...