Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...discovered by all his furniture except his book-case; and as we are more particularly concerned with this, we leave his species for the present, and shall describe the only other man who can be the possessor of text-books and nothing else. This is a grind of the narrow-minded sort, who studies all the time on the lessons which are set him, but whose mind is chained down to the recitations that he goes to from day to day. He studies French or German perhaps, and takes the highest place on the rank-list in those studies...
...possible. Then how can this end be attained, how can the highest learning be developed, but by allowing the freest competition? When the prize is set for learning, surely it is but fair that every one should have an equal chance. Under the present system the man of narrow means has the advantage...
...what does this advantage arise from? Either from his superior learning or his narrow means. It must be the latter. It cannot be his superior learning, for since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them...
...liberally educated should avoid them for the sake of their own reputation for common-sense. A man can make more sweeping assertions in five minutes than he could prove in a lifetime, and a habit of doing so is almost invariably a sign of an immature mind and a narrow judgment...
...total immersion in baptism, yet they make it no test of fellowship. The first syllable of Christian as applied to their denomination is usually pronounced as in Christ, probably incorrectly, but this serves at least to mark a distinction in meaning. The word is not defined in its narrow sense by Webster. Ignorance of these facts is very pardonable, but a critic, who confessed to no clear understanding of the use of the word, should have avoided making a point based on such ignorance...