Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusually large number of men who presented themselves to try for positions was gratifying, but Harvard has especial need of a strong team this year. Yale came very near wresting the cup from us last lear, and judging from the present outlook she will make the contest even closer this spring. The men who won prizes for Yale are almost, without exception, still in college; while we have lost Baker, the winner of the 220 yards dash; and Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith and Wheeler, winners of second prizes. Two members of the last year's tug of war team...
...reception on Wednesday evening of this week to the senior class. These receptions are in accordance with a long standing custom of President Dwight's predecessors but perhaps it is more looked forward to now than ever, as it is the principle means of bringing the students to a closer intimacy with the president, since he has given up the idea of meeting them in the class-room, in order to devote himself more completely to the requirements of the university at large. Dwight Hall, our newly erected Y. M. C. A. building is probably better fitted for bringing...
...eleven has gone to Princeton practically unsupported. The game does not occur until to-morrow afternoon, so there is yet time for those who have been negligent or those who have as yet been undecided. The result of the game will be much closer than many expect. A possible victory ought not be turned to defeat for lack of enthusiastic spectators...
...quarter millenium, the college attempts an enlargement of its religious privileges. Nowhere have I witnessed a grander service than the daily morning chapel service heartily conducted by a thousand gentlemen. But as I look over this sea of faces, I ask myself, 'how shall I be brought into closer sympathy with these men?' It is absurd to talk of irreligion and atheism here; for a university is the thermometer of the community from which the students are recruited. There are many electiues here, but life is not one of them; we must live. Therefore let us live that largest life...
...rule. They have changed their old stroke of last year considerably, and seem to be copying Harvard as closely as possible. Though they are by no means rowing perfectly, yet one can easily see that they are a decidedly better crew than '85, and will give Harvard a much closer rub than they did a year...