Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi, Rev. E. E. Hale, to illustrate his point that men of wide reputation in letters may be of really better material than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James Russell Lowell to an acquaintance in Europe in the year of Lowell's graduation. He wrote that James Lowell had fallen in his studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear...
...following is published by request: "It is the swell way," said the foxy junior as he bought the wide-ruled theme-paper...
...exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take the place in college life of the older class of distinctively college songs. And so, with the rapid abandonment of all the more prominent characteristics...
...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...
...argue whether culture is good, the writer says, but argue harder than ever whether it pays. On the general value of wide education opinion is, we think, much more nearly unanimous than it was forty years ago. Time was, and not so long ago, when even the cultivated doubted whether "scholars" were ever quite fitted for the practical work of life, just as time was, and not so long ago, when generals and admirals held that educated soldiers and sailors were sure to run away. All this has passed away, as has the idea that the universities are "nests...