Word: widespread
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None of the accessory causes mentioned in the second lecture are as important in the development of art from the early archaic conventionalities as the influence of athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly...
There has been much discussion of the possibility and advisability of a University Club. And against it have been urged such arguments as that the Harvard indifference would nip the club in the bud, and that there was no sufficiently widespread motives to bring students within its hallowed precincts...
...most sanguine could have expected. It must be remembered first that the men on the eleven have been entirely out of practice for years, secondly that most of them have never played against Yale or Princeton at any time, and thirdly that they have been compelled to overcome a widespread notion, or bitter prejudice, that Harvard men cannot play foot-ball any way, and would do well if they never tried. With all these obstacles in its path the team has met the champion foot-players of America on their own grounds, surrounded by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters...
...article on the Conference Committee in the last Advocate was read with widespread interest throughout the college...
...Harvard Union will open its meeting for the year by a discussion of the issues of the approaching political campaign. A public debate of such a nature as this never fails to arouse a widespread interest among the students, and calls out many good speakers who ordinarily do not participate in the meetings. Upon a topic of such living interest nearly every member of the college should have something to say and much to hear. Many men while in college are personally interested in the success of their political party, and if induced to state the reasons for their support...