Word: widely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan of producing a Latin play next year will doubtless arouse wide spread interest, particularly after the marked success of the Greek play which was given in 1881. That was the first production of its kind in America and it attracted to Cambridge probably the most distinguished gathering of literary people ever assembled at one time. People flocked from all parts and paid fabulous prices for seats. The press of the country gave long accounts of it and London papers even went so far as to have the news cabled to them. The event marked an important period at Harvard...
...came to feel that he had a definite plan of life, - a plan for an indefinite immortal life; and they trusted him accordingly. Those who came from a distance probably heard him most often and valued him most highly; and though this made his influence as a preacher very wide, it is not solely, or even chiefly, as such that he is to be remembered...
...Club alone. Each succeeding entertainment, however, will be open to the public. In the larger cities there will be lists of honorary members, who are entitled to buy tickets for the private performances. Tours will be taken yearly through these cities in the effort to arouse a wide public interest for a better class of plays of literary merit. It is an attempt to save the stage from being cast out of the field of literature, on the ground that the stage rightfully belongs to Art and Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel of the class of '78 is president...
...subjects by able writers. The editor was great, the reporter insignificant. Today, however, people are not ready to follow other men's opinions; their one desire is for the news and for all of it. There are not more than four editorial writers in the country whose writings possess wide and strong influence...
...growth of the school. In 1887, only fourteen students were registered; in the present year there are one hundred and eighty-one. The school offers the unusual advantages of combining a measure of academic culture with a thorough training in some branch of science, and it is to the wide dissemination of this fact that the increase in the school is mainly due. Moreover, special effort is made to adapt instruction to the individual student, and to place him in a situation at the end of the course adapted to his abilities...