Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half of civilization might at least equal the eastern in its opportunities for learning? We hear almost daily of bequests for new colleges among us. Our people would almost seem to believe that our universities had reached their greatest height and the only thing left to do was to scatter them around more profusely. But no; in distribution of knowledge among all classes we do not fall behind other nations. Our masses are recognized as the most intelligent in the world. It is in height, not in breadth, of scholarly development that we are lacking...
...order that new men may be induced to come out and try this health giving sport. The advantage of a "slow hunt" is that all the hounds are kept together in a companionable body until the "break," making it pleasanter for those running than to allow them to scatter at will. The flyers are thus restrained and the new men and those out of perfect training are able to keep up until the hunt is nearly over. From the break homewards is a good test of a man's endurance and speed, and the many close races to the finish...
...last number of the Advocate there appeared an article entitled "Lacrosse versus Tennis," in which the writer proves, to his own satisfaction at least, that Lacrosse is a dangerous innovation which is making dastardly attempts to uproot and scatter to the winds that venerable root of all - virtue, lawn tennis; and that, if it be not speedily wiped out of existence, untold misery will descend upon the community. The author of the article, - whom we shall take the liberty of dubbing ???, in order to avoid personalities - shows such an ignorance of facts that a little correction of his statements...