Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness for love of country...
...degree these arguments carry weight. Distilled liquors are most harmful to the health and morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement against prohibition would arise that the dry legislation would have...
Such usurpation, however, lasts but a short month. Until then let the inhabitants of the sacred Yard beware lest returning late from revelry they sway from the straight and narrow path, and becoming ensnared in the wire, fall with great force into a seedbed...
Harvard has no room for men who are attracted by high pay. Increase of salary would be a further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...
...seems pitiable that in a University such as Harvard, a new publication of evident literary merit cannot be brought to light without a most unfair attack being made upon it by certain narrow minded editors of the established literary organ. History teaches that when satire is used, decay has set in. Surely dishonest competition, anonymously conducted, discloses a moribund state of affairs. How can a small group of men who have failed in keeping alive Harvard's undergraduate literary traditions presume to sneer out of existence a publication of real literary promise? It is merely another attempt by the "vested...