Word: widely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University. In addition to this suggestion that Harvard men should endeavor to know something about the most important of the professors, there might have been a similar suggestion concerning some of the older worthies who have had some previous connection with the University, and who have acquired such a wide spread fame that any man of average information, whether a Harvard man or not, ought to know something about them...
Architecture also receives its due share of attention. An illustrated article is devoted to the Renaissance castles in Touraine, sculptured and turreted and haunted with memories of Agnes Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Anne de Bretagne, etc. Then a wide step across the Atlantic takes one to far-off Milwaukee where the "Wes tern Mansion" of the late Emil Schandein furnishes the subject for a description by George H. Yenowine. The house is very large, architecturally German renaissance and is considered one of the sights of the "blonde city of the lakes...
...intended, while preserving the general character of the North Avenue gate, to make the gate in every respect subordinate, its principal posts representing in scale the dimensions of the smaller posts of the North Avenue gate. Seen from the Delta it will present a recessed entrance, about forty feet wide, flanked on the outer corners by piers twelve feet high and on the inner corners by piers of the same dimensions. The gateway itself will be of wrought iron, of a simple character, and about twelve feet in width, serving as one of the carriage approaches to the yard...
...interest to Harvard students of philosophy from the fact that it contains a long review by one of our professors, Josiah Royce, of a recent important publication by another professor, William James. Professor Royce commends the "Principles of Psychology" for its novel suggestions, its new outlook upon psychology, its wide range of comparative study and the help which it gives one towards desired many-sidedness of insight. He characterizes the method of the book as a curiously intermediate one among the various possible views as to the nature of the mind, standing half way between the mind theory...
...popularity of the course shows how zealous people are to satisfy the growing desire to understand better what philosophers are thinking about; it has served a purpose much more wide-spread than was anticipated; and a renewal of the series next year is already looked forward...