Word: broader
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nation of July 17, Dr. Clarke replies that there is a science of Protestant theology, and that the best men in the different sects have a common foundation for their theology. Where, then, he asks, shall this broader, inclusive theology be taught if not in Harvard University...
...first granted to the Juniors, will not be abused, but treated with such prudence and discretion that the system may soon be still further extended, until Harvard shall become a real university, free from the restrictions which are requisite in high schools, but no longer necessary to a broader and manlier course towards maturer scholarship. We hope that every Junior will properly appreciate the privilege accorded by the Faculty, and duly estimate the responsibility thrown upon his class...
...only do these readings give one a much broader basis for intellectual culture in the future, but they assist materially in brushing up one's knowledge of a language. AEschylus is reputed hard, yet under Mr. Goodwin's guidance it was very easy to follow the text, and one felt his knowledge of the language increased while he caught the spirit of the original much more completely than from a book translation. Whether it was owing to the more general acquaintance with French among our students, or the attractiveness of Moliere, or the excellence of the rendering by the professor...
...travel along the plain we may better appreciate the details of the landscape and obtain a truer idea of it, and of what constitutes its beauty, than if from a mountain-top we saw all commingled and undistinguishable in the hazy distance; yet the latter view is the broader and grander, and that we may have a true idea of the whole region and the relations of its parts, it is almost indispensable. Besides which, it seems to me discreditable that a man should pass through college without knowing something of every important branch of knowledge; yet as things...
...found in Germany, and gives as a reason the narrow way in which Englishmen have devoted themselves to the mere text, instead of striving for a comprehensive view, through his plays, of the man Shakspere himself, both in his youth and riper years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination of the gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays...