Word: narrows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...actively used in the business or profession which he has taken up. If he begins active life ill provided with positive knowledge of facts he is likely to learn only those facts which are useful in his branch of active life. In this way he becomes one-sided and narrow-minded; efficient, perhaps, and useful, but not liberally educated, and probably less useful and efficient than if he were so. For it is the province of a liberal education to widen the mind, to make it turn more readily to new subjects of interest, to make it understand the ideas...
...denied that some of the seats of learning on this side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs, the tendency to treat students like men instead of boys, the founding of new schools of learning in intimate connection with the main body of the college, all of these have contributed to give the right to the broader title of university. Surely nothing...
...season for our annual complaint about the shortness of the Christmas vacation. It seems extraordinary that the faculty should not yet have opened their eyes to the plain fact that they gain nothing and that the students lose nothing by cutting down the vacation to such very narrow limits. The attendance in the courses during the week before and the week after vacation might seem to be a sufficient proof of how little regard is had by the men for the actual dates of the Christmas recess. But it seems that the faculty gets a grim satisfaction by worrying...
...secure a wide recognition of different library methods and principles by providing lectures during the year from some of the principal American librarians. The class is made up of both men and women, and I am told they find opportunities for their graduates easily, but mainly in narrow spheres...
...crush of vehicles at the one narrow exit of the Polo Grounds at the close of the game was something fearful. Many small accidents occurred which would have been much more serious but for the presence of detachments of mounted police...