Word: wide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little honor to the class." Emerson was quiet in manner, studious, little given to the rude sports of his comrades. "His mind was unusually mature and independent. His letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the library." In one of his essays he drops a bit of autobiography full of interest. "The regular course of studies," he says, "the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded...
...Talking of the wonders of Phrenology," said the enthusiast, "There is L_, whose bumps were analyzed, and his character determined to be a suitable one for a cavalry officer. Well, sir, in a few months time only, that fellow was know fair and wide for his terrible charges. He had bought and was running the College Book Store...
...cities remote and inconvenient, but whose residents are more liberal with gate-money than would be the home assemblies. He wishes to make these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes to give these affairs world wide notoriety; to have the insignificant details of each day's preliminary practice published in the newspapers of Christendom, and to have a nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages...
...retrace our steps and place college athletics once again in the position which they held ten or fifteen years ago when hardly a hint of professional taint or of undue excess was ever made. Indeed the gap between the two methods of reform is not so very wide. Not-withstanding these consideration however, we believe the college stands ready to accept the experiment of the faculty and test its new system with good grace and even with willing cooperation, provided that it be reasonably forewarned and be treated with justness and fairness so that its position may not become forced...
...reason that they were the open doors to the real and burgher schools and the gymnasia. Primary schools in England have been a by-word because the chasm between the great endowed schools, colleges, and universities and the places for the instruction of the poor was as wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. Huxley had said that no system of public education was worthy the name unless it created a great educational ladder, with one end in the gutter and the other in the university...