Word: widespread
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...replacing the old methods of teaching throughout the country. By the application of that system at Harvard he built up the department of chemistry and gave it a recognized position in the scientific world. Professor Cooke himself was a scholar of the highest rank and his individual investigations attracted widespread attention both in the United States and in Europe. He wrote a large number of books and papers and lectured frequently on scientific subjects. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Cambridge and was one of the most prominent members of the American Academy of Arts...
...communication in regard to the representation of the Scientific School on Commencement Day is published because it very likely gives expression to a widespread conception and not because it reflects the real state of affairs. The speakers on Commencement Day are not selected in the same manner from all the departments of the University. The College, for example, sets a definite standard which students must reach in order to compete, while the Law School Faculty simply calls for volunteers and selects the most fitting representative from these. The matter is largely one of custom, the one desire being to secure...
...students would fully compensate for a fraction of time taken from regular college work, and would be of such rare value that no small objection should be allowed to destroy the possibility of it. The failure to make satisfactory arrangements would be a matter of such widespread regret that we anticipate no lack either of effort on the part of the New Harvard Union officials or of consideration on the part of the college authorities...
...Chicago" will be given on Wednesday evening, November 8, at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11, by Prince Serge Wolkonsky, Commissioner of the Russian Imperial Minister of Education to the World's Fair. The prince is a Russian of high distinction, whose eloquence has already won for him a widespread, almost national reputation in this country. During the last six months he has had entire charge of the exhibit of his government at the World's Fair in Chicago, where he has frequently spoken to large and distinguished audiences. Owing to his sudden arrival here, it has been impossible...
...glad to see this activity on the part of the Natural History Society. There is an excellent field for it to work in and make its influence more widespread. The society offers peculiar advantages to men interested in scientific subjects and we trust the prominence given it by this course on astronomy may ensure it of heartier support from the college...