Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...looks out upon the broad expanse of life with its wonderful activity and its astonishing achievements, he cannot but remark how each man is compelled to follow one line of business or profession and so keep on in a narrow channel. Now this is the very idea that we must dismiss from our minds and it is the very principle that will mar the noblest minds. No such opinion prevails in a true university. "For if a university stands for anything it stands for the development of the full man, of large character and with sympathies bound up with...
...Harvard and Yale freshman crews will meet for the first time since 1886. At that time the Yale freshmen were allowed to enter the Harvard-Columbia race, but were swamped before the first mile had been rowed, and since then the impression has prevailed that the course is too narrow for a three-cornered race. There is, however, no real ground for this impression, for the cause of Yale's disaster was not lack of room for the crews, but rough water, as Columbia's shell came very near sharing Yale's fate, being half full of water...
...appear, which will doubtless attract a general interest not only among authorities on Greek antiquities and trained scholars but also among those who have read Greek drama as literature only. For the settlement of the, question as to whether the principals in a Greek play acted on a long, narrow ledge, the Vetruvian stage, ten feet above the great circles of the orchestra where the chorus were grouped, or whether actors as well as chorus performed in the orchestra, is of great importance even to the general reader, as the whole stage action is involved. Until very lately, scholars following...
...interesting to note that in 1736 old Jonathan Edwards was as much shocked at the corruption and lack of true godliness at Harvard as are his narrow-minded successors of the present...
...Athletic Club, a game of foot ball is to be played at the Madison Square Garden, N. Y., between the Manhattan A. C. and the Boston A. A. Saturday evening, December 13. Two half hours will be played. The field is said to be of regulation length but rather narrow...