Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with great power, the Websters and Choates are few, and genius is a dangerous gift unless under control. The care which prepares an amount of valuable material is of greater advantage than brilliancy trusting to inspiration. The only hope of ever attaining success in law is founded on a broad liberal training and education, which should include a knowledge not only of law, but "something of everything," not for the training alone of the mind, but for practical use. A thorough knowledge of history, both social and political, of different countries, moral science, and business in every form, - such...
...Hesperian Student for February is a unique production; the poetry is better than in many college papers, but rather broad for Eastern readers, and in an aimless poem we have the startling announcement of thoughts that are "sitting on the eyelids" of a student, "bending o'er the classic page"; and these same thoughts later "rustle in his hair." In descriptive language the paper is very rich; as a specimen, we have "uproarous silence." It is hardly fair to be severe on a new issue, but it is better for a paper to be dull, and free from shameful typographical...
...friends and acquaintances, assume alarming proportions in their own estimation, and, by reason of their own greatness, are threatened with the tragic end of the fabled frog. The more numerous class, however, are swallowed up in the larger life of some great city, where, in contact with the great, broad stream of humanity engaged in the strife of active life, they realize the pettiness of their own small achievements and successes, and are led to wonder if these can ever really serve them when their resources are put to the test in real life. In short, they get a glimpse...
...four volumes have appeared, published in monographic form, - and others which want of space prevents us from mentioning. To accomplish all this, extensive journeys had to be undertaken, and Professor Agassiz travelled throughout the length and breadth of the United States, until he became almost as familiar with their broad expanse of country as the husbandman with the few acres which he tills. Through all this great activity he ever kept in view the one object to which his efforts were directed: it was his earnest wish to gather specimens for a natural history of his adopted country...
...London there is a course perfectly straight, according to the United States chart, for six miles, and for four miles with no part narrower than thirteen hundred feet, which is very nearly half as broad again as the start at Springfield. Also, there are no shoal places on the New London course. The banks are steep, so that the steamers go close to either shore, and the current is unusually even in all parts. As for convenience to spectators, the course ends within five minutes' walk from the city. Besides the Norwich and New London lines of steamers...