Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...April a year ago we heard from the Federation of Territorial Clubs glowing accounts of a pamphlet for prospective Harvard Freshmen, which was to be issued at once and sent broadcast. The pamphlet has been coming out ever since and little or nothing has been heard from the Federation itself. It is perhaps only natural that the Federation of Harvard Territorial Clubs, being made up of representatives of its constituent organizations, should not escape entirely from the somnolence which has been the conspicuous feature of most of the individual Territorial Clubs themselves the past winter...
...CRIMSON does not know whether the statement is the result of poor mathematics or a malicious intent. Whatever its cause may be, this error will be circulated broadcast by the newspapers, and Harvard will once more be branded as "a rich man's college which bars poor students by compelling them to pay exorbitant prices for rooms." It is safe to say that Harvard's undeserved reputation for undergraduate wealth and indifference is largely due to just such canards...
However, supposing such figures have been estimated by Harvard men and scattered broadcast over Boston, do their totals show sufficient facts for the statement that "Harvard men are big spenders for luxuries," and do they reveal "details that are startling in their suggestiveness"? Let us analyze a few of these details...