Word: sounder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than if he were so. For it is the province of a liberal education to widen the mind, to make it turn more readily to new subjects of interest, to make it understand the ideas of others. The man who is liberally educated should possess more varied pleasures, a sounder judgment, more sympathy with his fellow-beings, a higher ideal of life and of its duties, than are held by other men. No education which is simply intellectual can give all these, but a proper intellectual education may assist a young man in acquiring them...
...after life of a young man, who comes here with noble principles, with active habits and true purposes, the four years will show their influence in a more perfected manhood, and in broader and sounder views of living. But on the other hand, if a young man is indolent and indifferent in his college duties, his course will seem to have been of slight advantage, and, indeed, of positive detriment to him as preparatory for active life...
...absurd," because in other affairs besides college exercises men are trusted on their honor, although it is known that all men cannot invariably be relied upon. The present church and chapel regulations may, he concludes, be inexpedient, but in order to obtain voluntary prayers, there is need of sounder reasons than those offered by "A Student...
...twenty-five years has been on the whole of great advantage to the university, and that the average physique of the mass of the students has been sensibly improved." Harvard certainly turns out as good scholars as Princeton, and its students are better disciplined. President Eliot's views are sounder than those of President McCosh...
...sealed it with a "sounder...