Word: wider
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used on the maps is almost plastically impressed upon them. Such devices as making relief maps of sand and drawing charts of given districts are resorted to in no small measure. Gradually a wider view of the world's geography is given them, but without that ridiculous heaping of dry facts and statistics so common in our teaching. The brain is not loaded down with long lists of names; no tables of statistics of populations of cities, lengths of rivers and heights of mountains are employed...
...made Germany more than other countres the home of desolation. Boniface, fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things, was a young child in one of the cloisters of southern Wessex. He had shown great capacity for study, but his religious nature soon drove him to wider and nobler fields. He took up the cause of Rome in Friesland, but soon felt that he must go to Rome and there obtain the papal sanction for his work. In the Eternal City, he found his desire for spiritual work increased until his whole soul became fired with holy passion...
...earnest protest against the indifference and dilettantism which certainly prevails among certain classes here. Whatever may be thought of the special reforms of which Mr. Barrows speaks, it will be granted that the tone of his writing is surely very high and stimulating. The piece is worthy of a wider reading than it will probably receive...
...another page. One part of this discussion seems to turn on the meaning of the word "religion." Harvard is non-religious only so far as she is strictly non-sectarian. Princeton is religious, but cannot be said to be non-sectarian. But really religion is, as President Eliot says, "wider, broader, deeper than sectarianism." We believe most strongly that of the three types of American colleges, the "uncompromising denominational," the "semi-denominational," and the non-sectarian, the last is the best, for it can most successfully accomplish the highest ends of an institution of learning...
...that those young men have had, or should have had before they ever came to college. Very few of those, who have ever experienced dormitory life at college will not testify that such a life, while it benefits the university at large by bringing together students from a much wider area of country, has also benefitted themselves as individuals by affording them strong influences toward cosmopolitanism and away from the narrowness of provincialism, toward also a wholesome independence in life and ideas and away from the narrowness of home dependencies. The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania overlook the fact...