Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...surest road to success and distinction, every engineer should become master of one subject, however limited that may be. By the time he is 35 years old, he should know one subject better than anyone else. To do this he need not necessarily become narrow, for his sympathies can still be broad...
...elaborately designed chess table, presented to the Union by Mr. Isaac Leopold Rice of New York, has been placed recently in the Game Room. The table is of quartered oak with a solid base, supporting on two stout columns an oblong top. The playing board, bordered by a narrow strip of rosewood, is inlaid with black and white squares. The board is surrounded by 25 small fancy metal shields on which will be engraved the names of future winners of the University championship...
...University baseball nine will play Dartmouth this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Last year the games with Dartmouth were won by narrow margins, the University team being unable to hit Skillen's delivery with much certainty. As the same man will pitch this afternoon, Harvard will probably be outclassed...
...considered apart from accidents of environment, the fundamental unity of the human race. These considerations should furnish some suggestions of the meanings of the incarnation which as the course of religious thinking in the West has frequently shown, may either be full of the warmth of reality; or narrow and exclusive with repellant technicalities. To wrangle with hair-splitting technicalities over the correctness and orthodoxy of such and such a creed, or to endeavor to interpret great and sacred mysteries in such a manner as to favor individual sects or religious is merely to pervert the fundamental truth and make...
...directly opposite to the spirit of the traveller St. Paul, whose benevolent sympathy yearned for the enlightenment of his brothers. The latter spirit is often found in missionaries who adopt a fashionable contempt, often disparaging and villifying the people whom they are pretending to raise. It is their narrow mindedness which causes them to apply to foreign religions the comparatively local and conventional standards of the West. We will find that in many cases the Oriental secretiveness so often complained of by our missionaries is the result of the latters' religious snobbishness. Such people should recall the utter lack...