Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Graduates' Magazine for March, which appeared yesterday, will command widespread attention both in and beyond the university world, not only because the subjects of the principal articles are of especial interest at the present time, but also because they are ably treated by men whose opinions will be thought much of. The articles referred to are "A Professor's View of Athletics," by Professor Taussig, and "Needed Football Reforms," by R. W. Emmons...
...society endeavors to arrange and promote public lectures, demonstrations, and competitions, and to form classes of instruction, so as to bring about a widespread and thorough knowledge of the principles which underlie the art of natation...
...members of the University and their friends. Such a scheme has much to commend it, and ought not to be lightly dismissed. Popular lectures at a convenient hour of the day would be an agreeable and legitimate addition to our University curriculum and could not fail to attract widespread interest. The audiences at evening lectures and readings are necessarily limited to members of the University and the Cambridge public. Vespers and the glass flowers are at present the only attractions for other friends of the University. It is to be hoped that those who have this matter in hand will...
...punishers of perjurers after death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...
...cultus of the dead comprises the observances and offerings paid to the dead as sentient beings. So widespread has been this cultus from the earliest ages that Spencer tries to derive all religion from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead according as they see good or evil following their acts. The sentiments which lead to this invocation of the dead vary among different people. Sometimes the terror of the dead predominates, and we find various charms and obstacles employed to prevent the return of the dead to the places which they...