Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earned by good scholarship and good conduct, has anywhere been held to render the recipient ineligible for membership of a crew, a nine, or an eleven. It would have been much more to the point to have presented evidence in the "official statement" in refutation of the wide-spread opinion that three of the players put on the field by Princeton at the beginning of the year, two of whom played against Yale and Harvard, are professionals, and ineligible, for any college team. One of these gentlemen, Mr. Ames, is currently reported to have received specific sums of money...
...account of the connection of the worship of Asklepios with the real or supposed art of healing among the Greeks. The worship of Asklepios as the god from whom men derived power to cure wounds and diseases seems to have originated in Thessaly, but in prehistoric times had spread widely over Greece. The god's most important sanctuary was the Epidauros, and his greatest shrines throughout Greece were the offshoots of the Epidaurian. Games in honor of Asklepios, consisting of gymnastics, music and the representation of plays were established at Epidauros in very early times. A great many fanciful theories...
...most urgent reforms is the ballot reform. An Australian ballot system has been adopted in a number of states, and will undoubtedly spread rapidly over the whole union. But will this Australian system do away with bribery? The experience of Australia and England tends to prove the contrary. Closely connected to a ballot reform is a much needed reform in the registration. In most states the registration laws are extremely lax; the registration lists are changed very rarely, and the result is that men who are dead or have changed their residence, shall figure on the old lists. This naturally...
...poor or unpopular. A man's life can be developed fully only by considering his supernatural part, by maintaming toward rich and poor a sincere, christion demeanor. Then only, with careful regard to its nourish men, can the tree of man's life, planted by Divine love, spread forth its branches and leaves trustfully...
...that a number of men have taken advantage of this privilege and have made it a pretext to obtain a recess. Most of the men who have been taken ill with the fever have rooms in different parts of the city, away from the college and the contagion has spread very little in their neighborhoods. The few cases of sickness among men residing on the campus are likewis restricted to men in widely separated localities, and there seems to be no fear at present of any seriotis increase...