Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...applications now coming in for 1885 6, give promise of a larger number of students for the 'Annex' than it has ever before had, and yet it is impossible to receive more pupils in our present narrow quarters. In short, the vigorous growth of our undertaking places us in the most serious embarrassment. We have either to cramp its farther development or make provision for its increase...
...remarked by President Eliot, in one of his recent addresses, that a college should not be turned into a professional school, that specialism in its narrow sense should not be pursued in a four years' college course. While every one should be prompted by some one purpose in choosing his electives, yet that purpose should not rule supreme. The line of courses pursued should not at college be a sharply defined line all of one color, but rather a line, it is true, easily distinguished, but here and there shaded off even into entirely different colors. These...
...faculty. Leaving out the question as to spiritual benefit, the compulsory attendance at prayers cannot train a man to be more punctual than the necessity to be in class-room at the recitation hour. In fact, there is no earthly excuse for clinging to the old puritanical and narrow-minded policy of compulsory chapel. The college world demands the change and corporations must certainly yield...
...tables narrow, crowd the chairs...
...desirable, and the writer does not presume to say that it is not, to advance the higher education of women, surely no better and no more promising means could be taken. A college for women under the shadow of Harvard University, with no restrictions from poverty and narrow quarters, would grow rapidly into an institution which would not only rival but even out-strip any similar institution in the country. In whom and how soon is the Annex to find a benefactor...