Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these men and there is no doubt but that they will greatly improve their playing by a few games with professionals. On the whole the college has cause to congratulate itself on possessing an Athletic Committee which can take a more liberal view of things than our respected, but narrow-minded, Board of Overseers...
...narrow escape from drowning Wednesday afternoon while skating on Glacialis. He broke through the ice but managed to get out with no more serious injury than a chilly bath. Five other students had the same experience yesterday afternoon...
...Manley, '89, had a narrow escape from a serious injury, yesterday, by a brick falling from the top of the new addition to the Agassiz Museum...
...stationary position which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal principle of optional studies which has made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas...
Prof. E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking in a publication of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, of the expansion of college work from its ancient narrow field of mathematics and the classics to the broader field in which modern languages, history, political economy, philosophy and the sciences occupy an equal place with mathematics and classics, writes as follows...