Word: broader
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University boat club by W. C. Baylies '84 was built by Sims, the well-known Putney boat-builder. It is 63 feet in length, 18 inches longer than the shell used at New London last June; and 24 1-2 inches in breadth in-board, one-half inch broader than last year's boat. The seats, according to the English custom, are placed alternately on either side of the centre, each being three inches from the middle line. This makes possible the use of shorter out-riggers, thus diminishing the amount of power lost by the play...
...Ervin '08 then took up the subject of college periodicals. These present a side of college activity quite as important as that furnished by athletics, and offer abundant opportunity for broader fields of occupation, and for making many firm friendships...
...business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented by several years of practical experience. As the college man gains this experience, however, his value to his employers increases much more rapidly. His view of life is broader, and his judgment as a rule is more mature...
...shell, built by W. H. Davy, of Cambridge, was tried out and appeared most satisfactory. The boat is somewhat broader and more shallow than last year's shell and rests closer to the water...
...have been called more definitely--"The Meaning of College Life." The meaning, in one way, as it has come to one man, W. M. E. Perkins, is that college is not a four years' recreation before hard work, but that it is, nevertheless, an excellent place to get the broader education (along with the other) to be derived from mixing with men. There is much more to the article, however; and one gets the impression that the writer has still much more that he has not told. Mr. Perkins is not didactic, though his style is forceful...