Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshmen played their first game on Saturday against Tufts, and won by a very narrow margin. Taking everything into consideration the team as a whole did fairly well...
...That which gives character to the individual is what he has in his imagination. And all this is yet more true of an institution like ours. It is sustained for a liberal education and for the ascertainment of truth. If it fails in this it is not liberal, but narrow, and our education is but information...
...leads one into a larger and deeper range of life into an enlargement of the vision, then it has been truly liberal. Where there are no visions life is narrow and dry. Let us cherish them, then, for they lift us upward and onward...
...does it give opportunity for so much skill in playing. The greatest interest attaches to the Oxford and Cambridge boat races. The boats are not placed side by side as one would naturally suppose, but one behind the other in order and twenty-five yards apart. A long, narrow stream is selected and the object of each boat is to advance on the one in front of it until the stern is touched. The races last six days and the various positions are noted each evening and resumed the following morning. There is apparently in this manner of racing little...
...crime and are shocked by vice. They cannot look at disturbances with equanimity and are more likely to form more intense convictions and to be moved by a sterner purpose than the careless city people. Their firmness of purpose makes them often greater and more stirring characters. They are narrow but powerful. Jesus Christ was narrow in this sense so were most other great...