Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...forever thy tables are spread...
...have first been put to. Yet, even in this spirit there seems less of promise in these contests than their most ardent friends among us, if there be any such, could reasonably expect. A singular apathy in regard to the whole contest is as apparent as it is wide-spread. Whether or not this apathy is without good foundation will be somewhat tested, we think, during the next few months, and there will be need of our insisting on a fuller discussion of the purposes of these contests, or we may be hurried - as some other colleges...
...Faculty, one cause which, we conceive, has produced by far the larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which concern us most nearly are never distinctly, and in terms, made known to the mass of the students, but are spread by rumor in such a mutilated form as to create the grossest misconceptions. To prove this, one need only turn to the College journals, and notice the columns of matter explanatory of the College law. Such decisions as the present should appear on the bulletin-board in the precise terms in which...
...examination of the books, however, and so few are the marks on many of the pages that we can with safety congratulate the Senior Class on the way they have started under the new system; there is no cause for discouragement, or reason to believe the rumors that are spread abroad that the present system is to be given up at Christmas or next term. Indeed, these latter statements have been declared false by the highest authority. In what we have said, however, we refer to the class, not to individuals. Some men have absented themselves almost entirely, and have...
...will improve, we feel no scruples in saying that the present number is poor. A threadbare poem opens the number; there is also a poem on "Nosorora" or some such sonorously named female, the whole idea and gist of which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form metre is not poetry...