Word: easier
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...centre for students of other nations, thus bringing together a large number of intellectual men. Great advances have been made in excavations the past few years and Athens grows more and more sugg stive of its former self. Railroads are being built and soon traveling will be made much easier...
...contrary we extend to you our warmest greetings as Harvard men, and yet we are desirous of warning you against the indiscretions so common to men entering college. At this early period of your college career we urge you to be discreet, when it will often prove far easier to be rash, and earnest when you will find it pleasanter to be superficial. Some day we assure you, the time will come when you will be glad of every second thought you devoted to the conduct of your freshman year...
...Harvard is favorable, though as yet indecisive. There seems to be some misunderstanding of the purpose of their enactment. The acceptance of the regulations this year will bind neither Harvard, '93, nor Yale, '93. It will merely furnish a precedent and make their adoption next year surer and easier. Not until three classes have approved the rules will they be binding upon future classes...
...paid the same year, for nothing is more burdensome and discouraging to a new manager than a debt carried over the long vacation. By a great effort last year the club was put upon a sound financial basis and that basis must be preserved. It will be much easier to keep free from debt than to overcome it, should it be allowed again to accumulate. The receipts of the Boat club come wholly from the generosity of several dramatic and musical clubs and from subscriptions. The expenditure for the tank and launch, however, have made the amount to be raised...
...number of students brings a hundred changes. The Cambridge of that day was much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even of a poorly administered horse railway, which gives you for five cents a car once in five minutes, makes communication much easier than an hour in an omnibus which charged you a quarter of a dollar for each ride...