Word: widest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture had recently sent to him his own "hundred best." Twenty, Prof. Norton had never heard of; he had never opened but twenty nor read largely except in seven of the hundred. This was a signify ant fact...
...Here is a showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase...
...widest diversity in industry and occupation tends to a nation's welfare, because-(a) diversified industries promote the general intelligence of a people, and general intelligence stimulates social advancement; (b) general intelligence promotes the political welfare of a nation, since it qualifies a people to deal with public questions, and it fosters attachment to country and love of justice; (c) protection develops the genius for invention and discovery, stimulates science, and gives an impetus to civilization.- Bowen's Political Economy, 491-492; Cairne's Leading Principles, Book...
...there lies that deeper advantage of making men more careful and deliberate in the choice of their courses. This force is brought to bear most cogently on the man who is taking what is known as a "general course" in college; for his range of studies is usually the widest and his choice therefore the hardest. The specialist, on the other hand, gets all the benefit out of the expansion of his department without the attendant difficulty in coming to a final choice...
...ought to be," has been published in a neat pamphlet form. The different preparatory schools and state clubs will find this an effective article for distribution. Every man in the university ought to send copies to his friends and make it his business to see that it has the widest possible circulation. - Yale Record...