Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...after all the extension is not going to make any important difference in the annual number of votes cast. This seems to be the truth of the matter. Whatever the actual difference from old conditions, it can not prove of importance, and Harvard can not be accused of being narrow minded...
President Eliot then made a short address on the life and character of Lincoln, pointing out several lessons to be learned from him by young men. His career warns us aginst a narrow acceptance of the word education. He had no education in the ordinary sense. He saturated himself with the Bible and Shakespeare, which gave him purity and power of language and sentiment, and his early training taught him application, perseverance, and courage. These qualities constituted his education...
...question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator, the executive, representative head of a corporation so important, so closely connected with the life of the country, as to make him a public character; a man whose function...
...distinct power of analysis and observation appears in every story, clear vision combining with fearless statement to produce conviction in the reader's mind. We are indebted to the author for the best written book of fiction that has yet appeared on the subject of Harvard life, although narrow in its treatment...
Stevenson's St. Ives (Scribner) is a most entertaining story of adventure, not as stirring, perhaps, as Treasure Island and some others, yet with enough mishaps and narrow escapes to keep up the interest throughout. The style is that of the hero (who tells his own story) buoyant, sparkling, familiar...