Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well as of citizens has been transferred to Boston. Only recently a tradesmen occupying a store under one of the college buildings has failed and gone out of business from lack of custom. Another such store has for six months remained without a tenant. These are signs of the closer connection coming about between the two cities...
...Harvard foot-ball team played Wesleyan on Saturday at Hartford. The game resulted in a victory for Harvard by the score of three goals and two touchdowns to one goal and one touch down, or, by the new method of counting, 19 points to 8 points. The game was closer than the scores would indicate. Wesleyan kept the ball in Harvard's half of the field most of the time, and lost the game rather by costly errors than by the superior playing of Harvard. There was little passing and few runs were made. The Harvard team in general tackled...
...mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent who, for the most part, were placed under the superintendence of the older members. The separate universities split again into closer economic unions, under the name of "Nations," "Bursaries," "Colleges," whose older members, the seniors, governed the common affairs of each such union, and also met together for regulating the common affairs of the university. In the courtyard of the University of Bologna are still to be seen the coats...
...city those who teach partake of the earnestness, activity and force by which they are surrounded, in which they live." The writer also takes into consideration a few of the advantages a smaller town offers to students. "That which has always carried the greatest weight with me is the closer life into which students are brought by a college in an isolated situation. Young men act and re-act upon each other. They stimulate each other. They relentlessly pursue, and they most effectually rub off eccentricities of action and of character. They exercise great moral influence upon each other...
...this fear is well founded, it is thought, before many years have passed, "the college will be superseded by all institution which will be in closer sympathy with the scientific tendencies of modern life," for the public have come to the opinion that it is certainly a narrow policy "to devote time to drilling men in the writing of Greek verse, while leaving them in ignorance of the anatomy and physiology of their own bodies...