Word: broadest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...world over. The fact that for years he has been travelling companion to the German Crown Prince, shows that he is a thorough man of the world. His visit to our University is a most exceptional opportunity for the study of the history of art in its broadest aspect. KUNO FRANCKE
Professor Kennelly said that there is much difference as to the meanings of the terms education, effective education, culture and vocation. Education in its broadest sense is the training of all faculties. An effective education enables the individual to fulfill those duties effectively and satisfactorily for the purposes that the individual is properly to be credited with in the conduct of life. Vocation, in its primitive form, is the duty of life to others, whereby living is made happier for them; and culture is duty of life to oneself, whereby life is made happier for the individual. Professor Kennelly then...
...what Harvard College is. It is the result of self-sacrifice for the past 270 years. I particularly want you to remember how your life here is going to affect those at home. All that Harvard University demands of a student is that he be a gentleman in the broadest sense and faithfully perform his College duties...
Professor Newcomb emphasized the great need for fixed principles in the science of economics, to which one may appeal for support in economic theories just as one appeals to the facts and formulas of physics in arguing its theorems. In the broadest sense economics is a system through which the want of the people are satisfied. Its operation is not governed by blind force, as some people suppose, but by individual with at every stage. Its purpose is the production and distribution of wealth--the transformation of one form of wealth into another until an object is finally produced...
...today is stronger than when Harvard was itself a small college. Is not this sure evidence that there is something at work in the successive classes that binds men together for life? What is the root of it all? It certainly is not universal acquaintance. The man with the broadest acquaintance is not always the deepest man. Class feeling is built on propinquity and contemporaneousness, which is common to every college worthy of the name. At Harvard this spirit is broader than elsewhere, because the system of studies and living fosters acquaintances, which, though contemporaneous, are not restricted...