Word: wider
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were then elected: President, N. S. Shaler: vice president, W. M. Woodworth; recording secietary, Collier Cobb; corresponding secretary, W. M. Davis; treasurer, C. B. Davenport; librarian, H. H. Field; curator, G. H. Parker. It was thought best to elect a number of new members in order to arouse a wider interest in the society's work. The following men were then elected members: Boardman, Shaler Berry, Ganong, Young, Potter, Dodge, Gage, Woodworth, Eastman, Darling, Little, Cornish, P. K. Brown. H. T. Brown, A. Read, B. P. Cheney, S. Dexte, 2nd., Emmons, N. Hapgood, H. M. Ballon, Setchell, Whitney, Leavitt, Stearns...
...hour of the night, and the students are supposed to be within college limits at that time. There are other restrictions that are designed to keep the members of the university more or less in check. At Harvard, no such strictness of discipline prevails. The students are given a wider liberty, and each man is thereby thrown upon his own responsibility. The effects of the two systems are, of course, widely different. The discipline of Oxford inspires in the men a respect for authority and a reverence for the college officials, and develops in them a fine sense of courtesy...
...individual and with the causes of his success or failure" in business. For "the business man is mainly concerned with the immediate future; the economist with the permanent trend of affairs." But "the greatest advantage of economic study is precisely in the training which it gives in taking this wider point of view. Political economy will not help its students to prosper; but it will give them a better understanding of the forces which affect the prosperity of the community;" and will help instill into them "an impartial public spirit...
...Junior years the changes are radical. Logic has been dropped from the list of required studies, and political economy has been brought from Senior year to take its place. Otherwise the required studies remain the same. In the elective department the student is accorded a wider scope than ever before. Kindred studies are divided into departments containing from two to four subjects each, and if the student seeks special honors he must take two subjects. Some studies are brought from Senior year, such as laboratory chemistry, biology, histology, comparative politics, international law, history of philosophy, history of art, and archeology...
...resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion to the population. If she does the latter, they will hold their rightful numbers, and her second degrees will increase in value as a badge of true learning...