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...university and go back into the common place of his home life. He feels that he has found the work he was born to do does not lie in the country and is only persuaded by the entreaties of his parents to retire to his provincial life to widen by his broadened views the sphere of his own home. The choir sang the following pieces: anthem, Rejoice in the Lord. Calkin; anthem, O for the wings of a dove, Mendelssohn; anthem, solo, Mr. J. C. Bartleett (Boston...
...whole, the new method of examination bids fair, to quote from the report, "to enrich and diversify school programmes; to widen the avenues which lead to the university, without impairing in quantity or quality the preliminary training of any individual boy; and ultimately to utilize as preparatory schools for the university the best of that large class of American schools in which no Greek and only the elements of Latin are taught...
...upon the relations of the Catholic and the Protestant portions of the community. The breach between the two divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency of an act giving the public authorities the right to supervise private schools would be to widen the breach to an alarming extent. Whenever the election of a school committee happened to come up, everybody would go to the polls knowing that the approval of parochial schools would come before the committee then elected, and hence the religious question would always be a dominant element...
...facts which are useful in his branch of active life. In this way he becomes one-sided and narrow-minded; efficient, perhaps, and useful, but not liberally educated, and probably less useful and efficient 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...
...resolved to widen the range of observation, believing that on the simple factor, weight, height, and chest girths, could not be based a true estimate of ones physical condition. Realizing how much depends upon the proportion of the different parts of the body, he began his observations by an extended series of measurements. His next aim was to test the strength of the most important parts, for although as a rule, the girths of the different limbs represent the potential strength of their respective muscles, yet there are many exceptions, and the measurements have to be confirmed by an actual...