Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...however, several men in the college buildings who are unwilling to conform to this custom. Such a man it has been my misfortune to meet. Of course the retention of a room may seem a small matter to him, but to myself it is far different. Indeed my whole spread depends upon the use of that one room; without it I shall not have sufficient space to carry out my programme; with it everything will pass off well. However much right the gentleman may have to the use of his room it seems to me that...
...rumor spread around college before Christmas that several freshmen had been dismissed from college, is entirely groundless...
...this singular hostility to an undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach...
...significant things in the new "Index" which appeared Thursday is the increased number of Harvard clubs registered. In few ways can the influence of the university be better extended, or respect and enthusiasm for Harvard be more effectually spread abroad than this banding together of old alumni all over our great country. To whom the happy idea of instituting these clubs belongs we do not know, but now that they do exist, nothing seems more natural than that these old Harvard boys, with the same memories and associations should come together. And yet, if we are not mistaken, Harvard...
...member of the two lower classes who by his contributions to the paper shall prove his eligibility to the position. No man who feels interested in competing need feel restrained from doing so as the competition is made as general as possible. There has been a wide spread interest already manifested but it is hoped that more will be led to contribute...