Word: finer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Consolidated Minstrels opened a week's engagement last evening at the Globe theatre. The house was filled and gave the company a warm reception. The entertainment was in every way good, the singing being fully up to the high standard of the company, while the Japanese juglers were even finer than usual...
...present accommodations will grow too small, and then a new building will be in order. Boylston Hall is certainly fast becoming out of date and inadequate. Already some inconvenience is felt in the laboratory accommodations and this is bound to increase with every new year. A new and finer laboratory is only a question of time. Now that Harvard has become in reality a university, her needs press upon her harder than ever, but these very needs are pleasing evidences of her substantial material growth...
...tariff has not built up the wool growing industry. The United States cannot grow all grades of wool. The finer grades of wool must be imported, and unless they are imported we must be contented with an inferior quality of cloth. The bulk of the wool grown here finds its greatest value when mixed with foreign wool; but since the tariff practically prevents our importing foreign wool, we are compelled to import the best fabrics from abroad, and the wool growing industry languishes. The wool grower who procured the tariff failed to procure protection...
...probable, however, that this intercourse has had any such effect, for the article goes on to say that the warmest personal friendships between teacher and taught have grown out of such intercourse-friendships which have been a stimulus to finer scholarship and nobler manhood. It is difficult to conceive that such effects are exhausting. But a still greater proof of the approval with which the intimate relationship existing between student and professor at Harvard is found in the recent College Conference meeting, at which Mr. Roger Wolcott talked to the students of the regulations passed by the Overseers. Never before...
...annual boat race between Cambridge and Oxford takes place next Saturday, the 24th of March. It is thought that the contest will be a close one. Cambridge has a finer set of men and her crew is working very hard. But the Oxford crew row in better form than their rivals, and will have an advantage if the race is in a high wind. Their stroke is more effective in rough water than that of the Cambridge...