Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only, according to the words of the announcement, are to be afforded the privilege of entering these courses - to take two courses of this kind. It seems clear enough that no one would be likely to engage in two special investigations and limit his field of work to such narrow lines, unless for good reason and with definite aim. And in such a case the student's desires ought to be gratified. Harvard cannot afford to put any discouragement in the way of an ambitious and eager student...
...which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate, who is not fitting for college, is obliged to have before he can get his diploma. Woeful ignorance of the commonest branches of learning has ever been a reproach to college students. The narrow line of studies which they must pursue in order to secure admission to college is the cause of it. Latin, Greek, and Mathematics take up all of their time; the rudiments of the principal sciences are neglected. Does it not seem right that an opportunity should be offered...
...current Unitarian Review criticises the Prayer Petition in a very unchristianlike and narrow-minded...
...Harpers'. Sketches and stories whose aim is some artistic form and merit have for the most part replaced the cruder, if perhaps more thoughtful, essays of a generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress...
...mere theories of college professors. The opinions thus obtained, it is fair to say, are usually on the side of a Protective Tariff. Of course these "practical" men do not stop to consider that the theorists, whom they look upon with condescension, get their education, not from the narrow field of business, but from a thorough study of centuries of civilization and national life...