Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wisconsin to go to Harvard. There are hundreds of colleges scattered over the country in which much faithful work is done, but which have not the resources in books, collections, and money which Harvard has accumulated in her 244 years of continuous life. For advanced teaching in a wide range of subjects a university must have a large library, great collections, and numerous teachers. The small colleges cannot be expected to possess these advantages, yet thousands of desirable students do excellent work in them, up to the limit of such college's power. Harvard makes this year a new offer...
...upon the fair lands of Harvard with an eye to their taxable value, but the great mass of our citizens fully realize and appreciate the advantages we enjoy from its location among us. By reason of it the name and fame of our beloved city is extended almost world wide, a higher standard of education necessarily prevails in our schools, and the whole tone of society is influenced and raised by the large number of people gathered within our borders in connection with the university, or from congenial associations. There is probably no like instance in our country...
...ridden his pony far and wide...
...good to have been born. I smiled to think of my happiness, and each smile brought back an answering smile that made me happier still. And while I gazed into those living depths of blue, they seemed to undergo a strange metamorphosis. Those two eyes grew into one wide cerulean expanse, the heavens of an unknown paradise, through which there burst the brightness of a sun more radiant far than day, the brightness of a glowing soul; and I was beginning to feel poetic, and had just taken out my stylograph for the purpose of penning a tender little sonnet...
...when the long halls and slope-walk'd gardens wide...