Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...resulted not only in giving certain members of the University a better appreciation of life in that part of Cambridge of which they see but little and of building up through its members a positive influence for civil betterment, but it has brought Harvard into a new position of deeper respect and higher recognition among the citizens of Cambridge...
...ever made a deeper impression upon the educational system of a country than President Eliot has upon the educational system of America. His gilt for leadership, his discrimination in the choice of men, and his power to conceive and execute large plans have made him the most conspicuous and influential figure of the last forty years in American education. He has, moreover, shown a public spirit and a sense of duty in all matters confronting the life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private...
...word about the proposed new council. The undergraduate committee took up its work in all earnestness, because it believed that the students had pledged themselves to make good a promise; and because it wanted to prove that curtailment is not a proper remedy for distraction. It wanted to cut deeper, by dealing with the student activities as a whole, in the creation of a sentiment that can never be legislated into existence. It remains only for the College to accept the plan in the same spirit of co-operation in which it was drawn. We are trying to help...
There are eight notable evils of city government in this country today. First is an evil not peculiar to the city, but having a deeper effect there than elsewhere--the spoils system. In cities even the laborers and mechanics are employed in return for their vote. By padding the city payrolls additional places are found for friends of the administration. Competency is immaterial in appointments under the spoils system, so that there is an utter absence of it in the administration of the city departments. There is no discipline, because each member of a force owes his appointment to someone...
...Ford's "Oxford: an Opinion" is so modest in its claims to authority that it almost forestalls criticism. Yet the author shows that during the single term her spent in the English university, he kept his eyes open and his mind at work. A longer experience and deeper meditation might have led him to change his mind on some things, as, for example, that it is not difficult to get the English point of view, or that "refinement, because it is the most difficult part of education to attain, should therefore come last." Some things, on the other hand...