Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every one who was present at the conference of the Student Volunteer Committee held last Monday evening at Professor Peabody's must have lamented the wretchedly inadequate report published in Tuesday's CRIMSON. It seems highly inappropriate that a meeting of seventy students, representing a lively and very widespread interest in the University should receive such meager notice in a college paper which aims to voice the various sentiments of the student body...
...risk of failing to pass the course. If the trouble were confined to the 1.30 section I would be led to think it due to the bad acoustic properties of this room (Fogg Lecture Room). As the matter stands, however, this cannot be the case, for the trouble is widespread and has been noticed by every instructor in the course." This looks very much as if the bare truth, disagreeable though it be, were simply that the standard of the course is not as high as the instructors have a right to expect or the students seem so fondly...
Quite a noticeable literary event is the warm welcome given by the public to the new one-volume Cambridge Edition of Robert Browning. In spite of his later popularity and the widespread study of his works by clubs and classes, Browning would, beyond these readers, naturally be regarded as rather "caviare" to the many. It is therefore remarkable that the whole of a large first edition of this book should be swept off immediately upon publication, and the publishers compelled to go to press at once with a second edition to supply the demand...
...opinions of the Faculty may be, no one will question that they spring from a sincere devotion to the welfare of the University. It is, however our belief, as it has been, that the action of the Faculty is mistaken and ill-timed, and that with the present widespread disposition to reform intercollegiate. football, the game could actually be brought back to its proper standing as a gentlemanly sport. As long as there was any chance that the Faculty would allow the attempt to be made, we urged its desirability, as did many of the Faculty themselves. But the decisive...
...legislation is needed for the detection and summary punishment of the exceptional player of a vicious or ungovernable temper, and to this end they recommend an additional umpire and an increase in the powers and responsibilities of all the officials. These changes, coupled with the influence of the present widespread and merited criticism of unfair play, it is believed, will put the game upon a truly sportsman like basis...