Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the number of freshmen at Oxford this term is unprecedentedly large. Students of narrow means are much more numerous than twenty years ago; in fact, in this respect, Oxford seems to be returning to the sixteenth century, when the sons of persons in what in England is called the lower middle class-yeomen, shopkeepers, etc.-made up much of the university...
...such a simple method of drawing books. The library might do half the educational work of the college if the students only gave it a proper appreciation. Everybody should do some reading; and if it be good, the more the better. He who does not read is rightly termed narrow minded. Freshmen in particular are likely to put off their initiation into the awfully complicated net-work of procedure at the library, and too often this delay extends through the sophomore and junior years, and as we have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought...
...Canoe Club hope to hold their regatta on the regatta on the regular course on the Charles river, off the Union Boat Club House. The river in front of the university boat house is suitable for paddling races, but is too narrow and crooked and has too much current and tide for sailing races...
...true that the original colonists were narrow, bigoted, and possessed of many unlovely traits of character, but these traits are always possessed by those who are working in earnest and striving for enlightenment in education and morals. The chief intent of Harvard College was to provide ministers for the Colonists, but it was soon found that college-bred men were eminently fitted for high offices in both the government of the state and in commercial spheres of life. Among the latter may be ranked the governors, Joseph Dudley, Stoughton and Saltonsdall. John Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton...
...usual length, one thesis of from three thousand to five thousand words, and in addition to this work to pass a final examination in forensics. This last part of the year's work will prove distasteful to many men, as few persons can write a forensic within the narrow limits of three hours, even to their own satisfaction. Then, too, examinations are distasteful simply because they are examinations, and any increase in their number will not be greeted with pleasure...