Word: broadest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laws. It is sometimes claimed that Anthropology covers too much ground, that a complete knowledge of man would include all that is known in every debarment of scientific research. But could not the same be said with equal force of History and Philosophy? do not they, in their broadest sense, also include all knowledge...
...liberal, candid, and straightforward explanation of the reasons of the Board of Overseers in making the recent recommendations. The students owe him a debt of gratitude for the way in which he made plain that in almost every respect the votes of the Overseers are not hostile to the broadest, highest, and most progressive aim of Harvard, but that they will serve to establish on a firmer basis the present policy of college government...
...possible that such specialization may narrow his sympathies? Is it not shown by Mr. Darwin's autobiography that the aesthetic sense may be blunted? How can such possible dangers be guarded against in our college life? The lecturer suggested (1) studies in philosophy; (2) fine arts in the broadest sense; (3) literary pursuits. In the choice of a broad course, the subjects should not be those alone in which the scientific method deals with one class of facts alone, as those of natural or physical science, of history, of political economy, but with many of these. And, as a check...
...direction, each in the prosecution of his specialty, at any American or foreign school that he choose; and that these thoroughly trained students should be maintained by this great central university to investigate important problems in American politics, industries and social science-doing original work and building, on the broadest system that perhaps has ever been devised, a great national university in fact. Such an institution would stimulate and unify all the existing American institutions of high grade...
...broad education. He has to deal not merely with localities, but with the world, and his mental equipment should be such that he may comprehend the thought and movement of the world as thoroughly as a merchant comprehends the daily movement of the market. The broadest, the best education that a college can give, therefore, is the best preparation for a political career. The nearest that Harvard, or any college, can come to a direct preparation for this must be in its courses of historical study, of political economy, of law, and the like. It is true that these things...