Word: easier
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wind of pleasure sought an easier sway...
...second better than the time at Saratoga, and more than a second better than the performance on Jarvis, last fall. The throwing the cricket-ball was perhaps the best exploit of the two days. The winner threw 103 yards 11 feet. A base-ball can, of course, be thrown easier than a cricket-ball; still our winner, in throwing, covered but 306 feet, - less by fourteen feet than the distance covered at Rugby...
...establish another society, it would seem best to wait till next year; then, if the intention of the Sophomore Club holds good, men from other classes can send in their names and be elected in, and the transformation of a class club into a general club will be much easier and shorter than starting an entirely new club...
...that not only are our military supplies deficient, but that nine tenths of our impromptu army are ignorant of even the simplest movements of the manual. If we could raise a force that knew something about handling its arms, the task of organizing and disciplining it would be far easier and quicker, and the time thus saved might make all the difference in the length and results...
...desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making use of some elaborate notes and one of Harpers' maturer Youth's Companions...