Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...endure everything and to believe everying would seem to him ridiculous. He rejoices in his cleverness and thinks that he is so sharp that no one can deceive him. But he deceives himself for what man could carry on his business without trusting anybody; he would not only narrow his business but he would make himself smaller and meaner...
Many men say that the days of faith are gone, that now belief is so broad and liberal that a man can believe or not believe anything, but really the broad faith is the best faith, while a faith confined and limited to narrow bounds, like that of the middle ages, shuts out the light. The broad unquestioning faith is the faith of love; there is a sort of faith taking things as a matter of course, believing that there is a God but perhaps not understanding or caring what sort of a God it may be. But the faith...
...welcome which it is now so hard to express; and to all students it would be a constant reminder of the high aims of the societies which are now almost hidden from view, and even from thought, in their obscure rooms. Its purpose would be anything but a narrow one, for the three societies now represent practically all shades of religious belief, and any new religious society would find a place in the building, as soon as it might be formed. The present membership of the societies might indicate a lack of general interest on the part of students...
...mile wide, all the crews can keep to the westerly shore without any one of them being favored by the channel. At Poughkeepsie the stream does not afford a three mile stretch anywhere north of the Poughkeepsie bridge unless the crews row across the current. The river is comparatively narrow, so that the crew having the mid-channel would have great advantage...
...many lectures and readings given last year under the auspices of the University. There were over 130 of these last year, an average of more than three a week, - a fact very suggestive of the wonderful opportunities afforded to the Harvard student for obtaining knowledge outside the narrow limits of his college courses...