Word: wider
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Articulate which tells of wider spheres...
...Much wider than my need...
Methinks much wider than...
...into which it was his earnest wish to infuse as much as he could of Harvard feeling. His death is but another instance of self-denying and laborious preparation deprived of the expected opportunity to fulfil itself here. Did we not believe that it was to have elsewhere a wider scope, we should only have despair where we now find consolation. On Thursday he was buried (as he had wished to be) from the church in Cambridge-port, - the church to which he had given a large share of his time, whose services he had helped to beautify...
...many respects the beauty and simplicity of old-time teaching has not been equalled by the wider acquirements of the present day. In those days teacher and pupils were inseparable friends and associates. The one had something which he must impart, the other the intense desire for knowledge characteristic of the natural and healthy mind. The two elements must meet, and their union must always be productive...