 After Nearing was dismissed from the Wharton School, he began teaching at the University of Toledo.A former student of Nearing, Rexford Guy Tugwell, also taught "The Landlord's Game" at Wharton, and took it with him to Columbia University.Apart from commercial distribution, it spread by word of mouth and was played in slightly variant homemade versions over the years by Quakers, Georgists, university students (including students at Smith College, Princeton, and MIT), and others who became aware of it.