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...athletics throughout the country is the stress laid on Varsity teams almost to the point of ignoring men who can add nothing to the potential strength of those teams. The feeling at Harvard is opposed to this narrow outlook. This year certainly the principal athletic policy has been to widen the scope of sport to include as many men as possible, and to provide them not only with facilities but with competent coaching. In crew, the number for whom we have thus provided is considerable. Last fall thirty-two crews were on the river. This meant that at least...
Wage-earners both in these United States and elsewhere believe Mr. Forbes will have to widen the scope of his magazine and enlarge his economic philosophy before he can secure their subscriptions in any large number...
...there is another appeal which the Times might have made, had it chanced to widen its phraseology. If mere politics be a phase of life little less limited than academic concerns nevertheless the sum of matters beyond the academic horizon is worthy more diligent student foresight. The pitch and toss of business, the processes of manufacture, professional contingencies, all are ultimates for students now in comparative remoteness from them; and the thought of the individual student could hardly be better employed than in choosing or pondering the chosen ultimate...
...famed Bishop Brent was a victory for the Anglo-Catholic party, which prides itself on the ecclesiastical tradition of the Episcopal Church in contrast with the ecclesiastically doubtful parentage of the Puritan and other Reformation-born sects. The argument publicly put forth is that union with the "sects" would widen the breach with the Roman Catholic Church. This argument prevailed in spite of the two rebuttals: 1) The Roman Catholic Church recognizes no cousins ? from its point of view, not to be orthodox is to be heretical; a miss is as good as a mile, etc. 2) The Roman...
...story thins into a string of anecdotes as its author's activities and acquaintance widen. Still painting, he sees much of Whistler, something of Oscar Wilde, of which parasite wit Whistler says: "He picks from our platters the plums for the puddings he peddles in the provinces...