Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Silver Bay Committee have found a widespread interest in the Student conference which is to be held this year at Silver Bay, Lake George, from June 12 to June 20. All men in the University are eligible to attend the conference. Any men who are interested can make application either to one of the members of the committee, or through Phillips Brooks House. In order that accommodations may be secured, a registration fee of $7.00 will be collected. This fee must be payed by May 19. In cases of absolute necessity a refund will be made...
These incidents taken together are symptomatic of a widespread attitude of mind which is far from healthy. The mere fact that this sort of literature is being disseminated shows that enough people are being fooled to make the business profitable; and this, in turn insinuates that the supposed intelligentsia of the country, or some appreciable pertain of it are willing to simulate culture and education, while allowing somebody else to do the work...
...various members. Recently the departure from the policy of condoning national championships through the sanction of a national track and field meet in Chicago has occasioned adverse comment from some colleges, who feel that the effectiveness of their organization will be seriously curtailed if such practice becomes widespread...
...Under such circumstances there must inevitably occur mistakes in judgment, instances of favoritism and sporadic cases of actual graft. The committee will have no difficulty in finding cases of each kind. But they signify nothing unless there is reason to believe that graft and favoritism are widespread and chronic in the work of the Bureau...
...President had searched the country to find the greatest antithesis of Mr. Daugherty, he might well have discovered Mr. Stone in that way. But no such widespread search was necessary. Stone was an Amherst man. He had been born and reared at Chesterfield, in New Hampshire, right next to Vermont. From Amherst he was graduated in '94 when Cal Coolidge was a Junior. Four years later he was graduated from Columbia Law School. Thereafter he began simultaneously to practice law and to teach (at Columbia). He became a member of the firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone...