Word: widely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many men graduate without knowing anything about the members of our various Faculties except about those few with whom they may happen to be thrown in contact at lectures. It is very trying to hear some one speak of a Harvard man whose reputation is national, perhaps even world-wide, and be obliged to admit that one has never heard of the man. If one learns nothing else at college, it is one's duty to be wide-a-wake enough to find out what eminent men are connected with Harvard, and for what such men are noted...
...less recognition and encouragement. While the principal colleges would seize the opportunity to step into the position of leadership abandoned by Harvard, many of the smaller colleges would be obliged to lower their standard to correspond with ours, and the injury done would there by be spread far and wide. In comparison with this far-reaching moral effect, and this injury to the prestige and influence of the university, the question of whether the average Harvard graduate evolved by the arithmetical process from the numerical tables of ages shall be a few months younger or older on commencement day, seems...
...Turn from the wide world, which it is so easy to abuse, so hard to understand, and think of your own life which you do know. There are high desires, noble discontents and ambitions in you. You know that they are there. But is not the dissatisfaction of your whole life this, that it is not they that get your most devoted thought and eager action? It is "the meat which perisheth" for which you really labor. It is the prize of the moment that sets you all astir, with desire, with indignation, with hope, with fear. All the time...
...Byes 2, wide...
Brown bowled one wide...