Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...America the tendency both in school and college is to narrow the number of those who take regular athletic training to those who find some hope of "getting on the team." In England there are dozens of "teams" in each school and the goal is good health and honest sport rather than winning a game. It is this spirit that progressive universities such as Harvard and Yale should foster in the preparatory schools, if necessary, by arbitrarily requiring a certain amount of physical development...
...shut out the most desirable class of immigrants. It does not discriminate between what the man knows and what he is. The capitation tax would exclude the very desirable and useful immigrants from Ireland. It is unnecessary for us to depart from our policy of free immigration to a narrow system of common exclusion...
...offered Mr. Longfellow were discouraging in the extreme. Graduates and undergraduates alike were exclaiming against what they considered an outrage on the College grounds. Any architect might have felt that popular prejudice was against him from the start. We believe that Mr. Longfellow has dealt so successfully with the narrow space allotted him, that even the situation of the building will cease in measure to be criticized...
...were induced to join the Weld to become candidates for crews. It is true that the Weld has an inadequate supply of eight oared barges, but the purpose of the coaching committee is to have the Weld candidates do practically all their rowing in shells or in narrow fours. In these two sorts of boats have been found in the past three years the most effective means of teaching watermanship to the thirty-three men who have graduated from the Weld to Class and 'Varsity trial crews. Furthermore we wish to have most of our rowing done in light boats...
...somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend to smaller subjects which form a part of his everyday life, and to which if he only knew it he could do justice, not only would the standard in that line of work be raised, but college literature would, so to speak, take off its disguise...