Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture on the Holy Land this evening Professor Lyon will show how rich the Semitic Museum is in objects illustrating Palestine and the Bible. The Museum is much visited by teachers with their classes. Such visits give a sense of reality to the Biblical narratives and thus deepen one's knowledge and quicken his interest in matters oriental...
...large representation '99 can do a great deal to make class dinners annual events for every class. The recent Junior dinner showed how much such social meetings can do, not only to strengthen class spirit and give men a chance to appreciate each other, but also to deepen the feeling of loyalty to the University. At every Junior dinner there has been regret that the class has not met in such a way before and a general wish that class dinners were annual. It rests with '99 to make them annual...
...rather than a fiery enthusiasm, firing up one day and dying away the next. It has been based on the growing conviction that the ability to speak well in public is not only desirable but necessary for the proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success in the intercollegiate debates, but because it will help to broaden the field and increase the good results of Harvard's system of instruction...
...beyond a question that one's intellectual dominion is greatly extended even by the mere ability to read other languages than his own. For it is precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this...
That the effect upon the moral condition of the college has been to deepen and animate the religious element in student life, to raise the standard of good couduct, to increase the power to resist temptations usually incident to large assemblages of young men, and to secure the general quiet and good order of the institution...