Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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HASTY PUDDING CLUB SPREAD. - All present members of the Hasty Pudding Club may obtain tickets for the Class Day Spread from the janitor at the club-house...
SIRS: - Perhaps the part of Class Day that creates most wide-spread excitement is the exercises at the tree. It is only natural that there should be an excited curiosity attending these exercises, for when one enters the enclosure one can never tell what one will see before one comes away. For the last few years past of what one has seen has been disgraceful. A certain amount of good, natural "scrapping" adds to the fun, but when men get to fighting so that their classmates have to pull them apart it is disgusting, and it must be especially...
...championship. Most men want exercise and will take it whenever they get a chance, but where there is something to work for, the exercise will become much more general and interested; and the offering of just such a reward as a championship is the important factor needed to spread the active interest in sport and exercise among the greater part of the college...
...important affairs of the University could be carried on. In these years when Harvard is carrying on such a definite policy both in the matter of education and the management of athletics, it is of the greatest importance that those who are to uphold their college and spread her influence in different parts of the country should above all things understand the ground which Harvard is treading. If, for example, the Athletic Committee could have had a chance to explain itself to the graduates as it did to the college in a recent college conference, Harvard would have been saved...
...years is found in the colleges of that part of the country where the need for higher education is beginning to be realized. The proportunate strides which are being made by such institutions as the University of Wisconsin and the University of California are gratifying as signs of the spread of learning which is taking place all over the country. Amid all this vigorous growth due to youth, it is good to note the way in which Harvard holds her own. She still keeps the lead, and if the tremendous growth which she has experienced this year continues, the chances...