Word: extent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game of hare and hounds at Rugby, October 20, there were two hares and twenty-five bounds, of whom fifteen came in, most of them before the hares. The extent of the run is fixed before the game begins, and the hares run to a definite point...
...blood. Notwithstanding what we have said of the book, it is readable, and its faults are amusing. We advise those who want only to be entertained to read it, but we trust strangers anxious to get an idea of Harvard will not pin their faith to any great extent upon this production...
...that the college, having him under tutelage as well as under tuition, had some responsibility for his behavior. But the elective system presupposes that the student is an adult able to take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same extent as any other citizen." Now, inasmuch as the ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged...
Inquiry has been made to some extent among the members of the Senior class as to their sentiments regarding the project, and a large number have signified their hearty approval of it. From this it would seem, that if all would give the matter their careful consideration, the advantages of the proposed change (even looking at it entirely from an aesthetic point of view), would be apparent, and the execution of the plan could not fail to be accomplished...
...written with some reference to what is said and done here, and it must at any rate carry with it the tone of the place. A few incidents founded on fact is not what we want. The forthcoming book is said to deal with actual occurrences to some extent, but if any Freshman ever induced another to drive a car into Boston by saying, "It will be just the jolliest lark," it is our good fortune to have escaped meeting him. The book, as a whole, may possibly be better than the extracts indicate, and it will certainly be worth...