Word: widener
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...acquainted with the sum of Greek and Latin literature before graduation. During the first two years, as is right, he is confined to a minute study of a limited number of works with due deference to grammar. But during the last two years, instead of having an opportunity to widen his personal knowledge of Greek plays or of Latin poetry, he is obliged to devote his energies to text criticism and details of syntax of a few specimens of literature. This system practically makes wide reading an impossibility. A student has but little time for outside work, and thus graduates...
...university and go back into the common place of his home life. He feels that he has found the work he was born to do does not lie in the country and is only persuaded by the entreaties of his parents to retire to his provincial life to widen by his broadened views the sphere of his own home. The choir sang the following pieces: anthem, Rejoice in the Lord. Calkin; anthem, O for the wings of a dove, Mendelssohn; anthem, solo, Mr. J. C. Bartleett (Boston...