Word: widely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reported at San Francisco that Professor Barnard of Lick Observatory, who recently gained world-wide fame by discovering Jupiter's fifth moon, has received a call from Chicago University and will accept...
...Laurie Bliss, of Yale, has a brief paper entitled "The Handling and Training of a College Base Ball Team" in the March number of Wide Awake...
...salaries and titles to four professors four assistant professors and six instructors. In each case the call has been declined. At the same time the number of assistants and recent graduates who accept positions in other colleges is noticeably large. The University must eventually reap the fruit of this wide dissemination. We cannot hope or wish to retain here as instructors all who are fitted for such positions. And yet it is gratifying, and something on which we may justly pride ourselves, that there are here at Harvard influences which prevail over the alluring offers of the rich institutions, which...
...first was a vigorous and exuberant satire, racy and picturesque in style, while the second fairly swarmed over with ideas, ideas of nature, of art, of life, all expressed with buoyancy of wit and crispness of statement. It marked perhaps the height of his genius, and won him world-wide reputation...
...abreast, short races can also be held. But the greatest advantage may be looked for in bringing out men for the hurdle races. By means of posts which will be set on the sides of the walk, both high and low hurdles can be had which will be wide enough for several men to run together...