Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University chess team is now holding the first position in the Metropolitan Chess League with a record of 4 matches won and 1 lost. This record includes 19 single games won and 11 lost. The Boston Chess Club, however, is in second place by only a narrow margin, since it has won 3 1-2 matches and only lost 1. Wells Memorial, Technology, and Bay State follow in order, the latter team not having won a single match...
...appear before commissions, boards, and public bodies to present his material in non-technical form, and in a limited time. But in addition to the practical advantage of the training the aim is to give a liberal background to a specialized field which is ordinarily pursued in a narrow and technical...
...while C beat D by six lengths. In the club crew races for the Filley Cup, the Eliot crews won all three races. October 28 saw the University squad cut to three boats, and in the race that followed A was again victorious, finishing ahead of C by the narrow margin of one length, with B another length in the rear. A final cut came two weeks later, leaving two crews which worked to the close of the season. Fall rowing formally ended on November 11, with an impromptu which A won by one quarter of a length...
...Skinner tries to answer the dicult question: "Can Harvard be Non-Sectarian"? and though he sucseeds in proving the expected answer, his statements are not always clear. It is a stimulating subject calling for broad treatment. The undergraduate as spoken of by Mr. Skinner is perhaps too sensitive and narrow-minded, and the sooner he can absorb all sorts of theories of life and religion, the better...
...into one camp or another. Several years ago a book appeared by one John Corbin, in which one chapter bore the ominous title, "Harvard, a Germanized University." And periodically the idea crops out that by some metamorphosis our older universities have been transformed from "good old English" institutions to narrow "single-aim" laboratories for academic research. The fact is that Harvard, as President Lowell pointed out at a meeting of graduate students last year, owes something to the educational systems of all the leading nations. The College, although it has followed its own evolution, is English in origin; the Graduate...