Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hardly praise the French department too much for the energy which it has displayed within the last few years. The courses now offered give opportunities for as close if not a closer study of the history of the language and its literature as do the courses in English. These improvements are due in a great measure to the excellent work of the head of the department, Professor Bocher...
...conference only shall not have executive power. It may be urged that the basis of representation pursued in the choice of the conference committee will be unjust to the lower classes, if followed in the election of a committee like the yard committee, which will be brought into closer relations with the lower than with the higher classes. To this we may reply that what is just in the constitution of our representative committee may be fairly considered just in that of another, if the work of both is aimed at the best interests of the entire college. Throughout...
Towle, '88 in the centre field does very well if he would cover a little closer...
...nothing, but adopt a code of morals so highly elastic that they do not themselves dare to classify their acts. Is it true that the students of Harvard smoke more, drink deeper, and live faster than the students of other colleges? Let us look at the matter a little closer for a moment. In a university so large as Harvard it will be possible to find students of every shade of private character. Some of us affect the Byronic and boast themselves "perfect Timons, not nineteen." Others betray the evil course of their life quite unconsciously...
Resolved, that this conference urge upon the colleges, a still closer agreement on their part as to the subjects to be sent for examination, the recommendations to be made to the colleges, and the nature and extent of the entrance examinations...