Word: spread
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American universities to the advancement of the welfare of the people. In the field of government, to use Harvard as an example, the fruits of co-operation between theorists and administrators have been large. In the settlement of tariff questions the work of Harvard professors has been of wide-spread influence and has directed the stream of public opinion into channels leading to scientific analysis and reasonable adjustment. The contributions of the Medical School to the science of preventive medicine and the important discoveries following medical research illustrate amply that the University comprehends the problems of the community and extends...
...following committee was appointed to co-operate with the Press Club and the undergraduate publications in their effort to spread the right kind of news concerning the University: G. G. Geraghty '14, of the Chicago Club, chairman, W. R. Bowles '13, of the Washington State Club; and E. P. Coleman, Jr., '14, of the Cotton Belt States Club...
...foundation of the Harvard press calls attention to the considerable and increasing place in the field of publishing which is being taken by the universities. Fashions spread so fast that it will perhaps not be long before a printing press will seem as indispensable to an ambitious university as a gymnasium, and the literary "output" will become as important as the number of students in attendance. The trade publishers will not suffer, for universities are not given to producing "best sellers," and most of their books a publisher could not well afford to bandle. Yet in addition to publishing records...
...pneumonic plague in Manchuria. In spite of overwhelming difficulties due to wretched hospitals, equipment, and the uniform fatality of the disease, Dr. Strong and his college were entirely successful in making some very valuable discoveries in regard to the plague and the way in which it is spread. Another dangerous tropical disease with which Dr. Strong has worked successfully is one which occurs among the natives of the Philippine Islands...
...great periods. The fact that the manner and technique of these masters is not realistic in our sense of the word makes their work more imaginative and more suggestive of the unseen. The Christian religion and the Buddhist both arose in Asia, the birth-place of religions. They then spread to Italy and Germany, and to China and Japan, where men could nobly express their ideals in art. An interesting comparison of the way religious art developed in the East and the West can be made in the Fogg Museum...