Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difference between ice polo and hockey is, roughly, as follows: Ice polo is played with narrow sticks and a rubber ball and the goal posts are 4 feet apart and 18 inches high. In hockey the players use sticks broad and flat at the end, and a block or "puck" of solid rubber. The goal posts are 5 feet apart and 4 feet high. The make up of the team is practically the same, but the difference between the ball and "puck" affects the style of play somewhat...
...self-sacrificing efforts in the aid of the less fortunate part of society by the Sailor Mission, the Student Volunteer Committee, the Prospect Union, and lesser organizations and by individuals in Harvard, that makes the University an important factor in charitable and philanthropic work and the college man a broad minded citizen, bent not only on his own advancement but on the uplifting of society at large...
...refuses to put any limitation whatever on the eligibility for debating team of any student, no matter what the character of his studentship may be. I have this year no connection with Yale, except as a graduate; last year I was a member of the "faculty" in the broad sense in which the word includes all whose names are on the list of officers. Is there any reason why I could now legitimately do what would have been illegitimate last year, or would the case be altered if, by the simple and easy means of writing my name...
...indoor track of the University of Pennsylvania beneath the grand stand on Franklin Field has been completed. The track is made entirely of cinders so that it will not harden in cold weather. There are two 100 yard straightaways and a take-off and pit for broad jumpers...
Thus we are told that Whitman's apparent vanity is broad-minded candor; that his crudeness of form is a positive virtue; for thereby he expresses with greater freedom the great acts and underlying principles of daily life. Whitman, says Burroughs, is superior to Emerson, in that the latter's intellect starves out his sympathies and emotions. Again, Whitman rises above the sphere of literary culture and conventional form which confines Tennyson and Browning. He belongs rather with Homer, Job, and Isaiah, for his poetry is more than literature; it is humanity itself...