Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time for Harvard to view with alarm the rival institutions that are springing up within and in the vicinity of Boston. That so many colleges, professedly rivals of Harvard, have been founded so recently almost at her doorsteps, must indicate some wide-spread dissatisfaction with the spirit and aims of this university. That there are really objections, however, that are serious and deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian...
...custody of Boston, Dec. 30th. The arboretum will be made a leading attraction of the new system of public parks. Boston has purchased Wood's Island, East Boston, over twenty acres in area, for a public park for $50,000. The plan contemplates a park-way one hundred feet wide from Bennington street to the park...
...Dudley A. Sargent will contribute to Wide Awake for 1883 a series of "Health and Strength Papers...
...head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature material for the education of youth that may be quite as useful for the mental and more suitable for the moral education of those to be placed under their charge...
...correspondent writes to inquire what has become of the illustrious Snodkins! Wants to know if at last he has graduated out into the wide, wide world, and why he doesn't appear any more in the pages of the Crimson and Advocate? We suppose...