Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author's reading to be given in Sander's Theatre Wednesday evening under the direction of the Cantabrigia Club will not only be an occasion of considerable interest on account of the wide-spread reputation of those who are to take part, but it is gotten up to provide funds for a decidely worthy object. Although at Radcliffe College, where many of the students are preparing to teach, there has always been a need for scholarships, the college has never yet been able to offer a single regular annual scholarship with a permanent endowment fund. Whatever aid of this kind...
...University baseball schedule which appears today provides for about the same number of games as that of last year, but they are spread over a longer period, and will thus give the nine more time in which to practice and rest after the hard games. This arrangement will be of especial benefit in the latter part of May and in June when the games with the strongest teams are being played. Last year there were almost always three games a week during this time; this year there will not, on the average, be more than two games a week. There...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the electrical spark, which he has been able to produce with the aid of his powerful storage battery, have created a wide-spread interest in the world of science and he has received most flattering letters from many of the leading physicists of the country...
...When the list of candidates was given out his name did not appear, and the report was spread through the college that he had been dropped by the Faculty because he had not attained sufficient "marks" in his college work, but it is false. Mains was not dropped nor has he left college. He has changed his department to the Bussey Institute, the agricultural school of Harvard University, situated at Jamaica Plain, some five or six miles from Cambridge, which gave rise, perhaps, to the story, and accounts for its being believed; but he is a member of the university...
...Bonaparte has long taken an active part in the Reform movement, and is a members of the Executive Committee of the National League. He has moreover a wide-spread reputation as a speaker...