Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vespers yesterday evening and Rev. Mr. Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young Lord for the first time leaving the narrow, squalid provincialism of Nazareth, with its limited horizon and cramped ideas of life, coming into the larger activity of Jerusalem and beholding the wonders of its temple, might be compared to the student at the university who, coming from the narrowness of his provincial home, discovers in his new sphere...
...scarcely thought of in the ordinary course of college life. But this is no reason why the necessary precautions against them should be overlooked. Many of the dormitories are built in very old style with very little provision for escape in case of fire. The stair-ways are narrow and all wood, so that they would make a perfect flue for the flames. It ought to be the duty of the college to furnish every room above the ground floor with a rope or other means of escape-There are ropes in some of the rooms...
...formative institution." The answer is that both departments, undergraduate as as well as post-graduate, are worthy of cultivation, but that it is through the undergraduate department that the nation is most directly reached. The remedy for this condition of affairs is "a truly democratic spirit, freedom from narrow selfishness and above all a high standard of manhood." The last editorial treats of the formal reply of the Athletic committee of Harvard to the Faculty committee on Athletics at Princeton. "The reply is in itself complete, straightforward, clear and to the point; it is all that we could have wished...