Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many evils contributing to our present array of social problems, none is more dangerous than illiteracy, which not only is wide-spread in the United States, but is rapidly increasing. Many of our labor troubles can be directly traced to the appalling prevalence of this evil; it is largely responsible for the existence of our defective and criminal classes; it multiplies agitators and radicals; it is the cause of thousands of industrial accidents...
...control of North Dakota has undoubtedly been shaken but we still have a majority. Some years ago we carried the state with over three fourths of the votes cast, while this last fall we got only 51 per cent of the votes. But the League has spread to other states. We have a membership of 250,000 in 13 states and had tickets up in 9 states this last fall, polling a gubernatorial vote of 1,245,000 in these 9 states, more than the Socialist and Farmer-Labor parties combined got in 48 states...
Lawrence J. Henderson is one of the most distinguished members of the University teaching staff, and his researches in the application of chemistry to biology and medicine have attracted wide-spread attention among students of these subjects. He was born in 1878, was graduated from Harvard College in 1898 and from the Medical School in 1902, spent two years doing post-graduate work at the University of Strasbourg and since then has taught at the University...
...course which is to be established at Tufts during the next half-year for the training of prospective directors of physical education is one which should receive wide-spread attention. The plan is to develop men who will be able to take charge of the physical education of both high school and college students. Too often this side of the educational field is turned over to directors who have no more than a vague idea of the work they are trying to accomplish...
...most constructive features of the American Legion and the one most of interest to Harvard men is the Americanization work which is to be demonstrated at the Union next week. This movement, which was started at Camp Upton in May, 1919, which has spread rapidly over the country in the shape of Recruit Educational Centers and Vocational Guidance Bureaus is making the Army, primarily a destructive force, a most valuable asset in time of peace. It is not only producing better and more useful citizens out of our most un American class, but is carrying on the spirit of mutual...