Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would very seriously affect the feelings of the Commonwealth towards the college, for the people would not stop to discriminate or to remember that the insult was not really the act of the old and time-honored college, but merely a venting of spleen on the part of the narrow-minded and prejudiced men who, unfortunately, chance for the moment to represent her. [Wendell Phillips...
...letter from his paterfamilias. The first words which he read: "In-closed you will find" - made him set up a hilarious cry. But his jaw dropped as he read the remainder of the sentence as follows: "a plan of our new home." Poor boy, he had a very narrow escape from being an inmate of a lunatic asylum...
...Johns Hopkins on the "Present Aspects of College Training." The founders of the early colleges believed strongly in the doctrine that intellectual power is worth more than intellectual acquisitions; that an education of all the mental faculties is better for the scholars themselves and for the community than a narrow training for a special pursuit. Acting on their idea the founders of our colleges began their educational system not with schools for special training but with schools of general culture, and the staff of instructors were not specialists but men fit to teach others the rudiments of higher learning...
...bases and went to third while Lovering was assisting Griggs out at first. Hopkins hit to Lovering, who made a sharp throw home to cut off Hubbard, but good base running by Hubbard gave Yale the first run. Hopkins who was thus left at first, stole second, with a narrow margin, went to third on a wild pitch, and came home on Terry's base hit to right field. Terry went to third on a wild pitch and came home on a second one soon after. Jones hit hard by second base, took second on McKee's put out, Baker...
...complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain nothing from what is termed a liberal education save a narrow selfishness and lack of patriotism, enthusiasm, individuality, and everything positive and definite, we had better shut up our colleges." This is excellent doctrine and we hope to hear it preached more and more widely...