Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able to spread light all around. He it is that may stand forth before the world as the model...
...their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take the place in college life of the older class of distinctively college songs. And so, with the rapid abandonment of all the more prominent characteristics of student life...
...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...
...time for Harvard to view with alarm the rival institutions that are springing up within and in the vicinity of Boston. That so many colleges, professedly rivals of Harvard, have been founded so recently almost at her doorsteps, must indicate some wide-spread dissatisfaction with the spirit and aims of this university. That there are really objections, however, that are serious and deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian...
...upon the details of its management." However useful such an organization might, in theory, seem to be, its practical benefits would be very small. College sentiment, expressed through the columns of the college press, has already done much to stop those periodical freshmania outbreaks which formerly seemed to spread like an epidemic among all the colleges at certain times of the year, and that sentiment will assuredly, in time, prevent those outbreaks entirely. As to a new "reformatory" organization in a college like Harvard, the only object in starting such a society would be to have a new shingle...