Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Second. Because such legislation will, if allowed to stand, check the healthy competition for places on foot-ball teams by restricting the area of competition, will thus decrease the present widespread interest in the game, detract largely from its character, and hamper its normal development as a university sport...
...name of the organization to the "Harvard Reform Club" was thoroughly discussed. The president of the club, Mr. Gray, stated that the proposed change would in no way weaken the past support of the dogma of free raw materials but would include other reform doctrineswhich are now attracting widespread attention and which are claiming the support of all persons interested in the welfare of our national institutions...
...better known to outsiders. Perhaps the most praiseworthy and successful of these efforts has been the distribution of the pamphlets called "Harvard's Better Self." Over ten thousand copies have been sent to Harvard men, clergymen and principals of schools in every State; and the good results have been widespread. These results are owing almost entirely to the work of the Christian Association which has labored with generous zeal for this purpose of doing good for our college. Students and student organizations can do this work more thoroughly than any one else, and we look to see still further efforts...
Today is the last day for entering scrub nines to contest for the championship cups offered by the Base Ball Association. This series of games ought to arouse a widespread interest and attract many competing nines. It offers an opportunity for men to play who are interested in base ball, but are not able to give it the time and attention demanded of candidates for the university and class nines. As all men who have played on the university and class nines are barred from the scrub nines, there need be no fear of any one of the latter having...
...Advocate's attempt to find whether the undergraduates desire a course in common law is a commendable enterprise. If the men who have received postal cards answer promptly, we do not doubt that a widespread desire for the course will be made evident. In such a case the faculty certainly ought to take steps for offering the course among next year's elective studies. We believe that the course would be valuable in itself, that a sufficient demand for it exists, and that it would be eagerly chosen by a large number of men. We should not, however, be satisfied...