Word: compass
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course of time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large that no student could follow it all. Before the end of the nineteenth century this was generally recognized, and election in some form was introduced into all our colleges. But the new methods brought a divergence in the courses of study pursued by individual students an intellectual isolation, which broke down...
...would be unable to meet Freshmen personally as he had been wont to do in former years. He likened the life of a Freshman to that of a sea captain about to leave the harbor for a foreign port. Like the captain who guides his ship by the compass, so the new student must guide his acts by his conscience...
...Dances brought the concert to a spirited and brilliant close. Tschaikowsky's elegaic trio was given a serious and earnest interpretation, and the playing of P. G. Clapp '09 of the difficult piano part is especially worthy of praise. C. L. Tittmann 2L. has a sonorous voice of large compass; his performance of "The Two Grenadiers" was especially impressive. "Le Cor" was given with discreet imagination, and Clapp's "The Swimmer" with considerable dramatic effect...
...wide enough to compass him. This interest he expressed in language that was brilliantly his own. No man was quicker-witted; no man had thoughts more original or diction more picturesque. He was ardent, combative, filled with poetry and romance, instantaneously responsive in his feelings. "I hold it," he said, "a part of my business to do what I can for every wight that comes to this place"; and thousands of men bear witness that this was the truth. No teacher in Harvard University within my recollection has roused so many minds or touched so many hearts...
Harper's--"The Mariner's Compass," by S. Newcomb S. '58; "The University of Athens," by C. F. Thwing '76; Editor's Easy Chair," by W. D. Howells...