Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other than mere social intercourse, has done a complete work till it has taken hold upon the public interest. College men are too apt to look upon themselves as not yet really in active life, as not yet having any relation to the public. This view is narrow and boyish. With all the opportunities for culture which college provides, college men should be most active in real life and that while they are yet in their studies. Knowledge is of practically no use till it is imparted and college societies fail in so far as they limit their activity...
...prejudices and recognize the truth that men of all religions are the same everywhere and that we have common interests with all of them. We sometimes think that we are the most highly cultured race of all peoples and we tend to divide and classify people from a very narrow point of view. If sometimes a man is advanced enough to throw off his old ideas and to see that all men are equal, he thinks that he has made a great step and that he is far ahead of other people. Really all he has done is to succeed...
...more thing may explain the prejudice of some scientists against religion, that is, that they do not usually know enough about it to speak reasonably on the matter. Specialists are inevitably narrow and a physicist is no more capable of discussing metaphysics than a senior wrangler is of curing a sick...
...what might just as well have been done before her goal was seriously threatened. It is undoubtedly true that Newell's absence was largely the cause of this weakness. And yet this very fact shows that defensive team play has not by any means been fully developed Such narrow escapes from being scored against are valuable experiences, providing they occur not too often. In by far the greater part of the game, however, the defence was strong, giving one the right to draw the inference that this weakness in play is the exception rather than the rule with the eleven...
Very many of the men who plan to go into the law or medicine do not begin specializing until they actually enter the Law or Medical Schools. Here they begin to narrow their studies, and it is of the greatest importance that they should have had the broad, liberal training of a college course to stand as an extra resource in their professions. The two professions are becoming more and more intimately are becoming more and more intimately connected with the life of the people and the standard of admission to them should be raised correspondingly higher and higher Especially...