Word: greater
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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NEVER before were brilliancy, beauty, and culture so fully represented on the ball-field as they were by the audience which graced the benches of Holmes Field on Class Day afternoon; and never before had such a gathering greater cause for rejoicing in the success of their favorites than did the numberless friends of Harvard on that victorious day. They saw a record of severe defeat wiped out by corresponding triumph, yes, more than corresponding. Five to Zero was overwhelmed, submerged, buried deep beyond the possibility of resurrection, while Ten to One was written out in letters of light equally...
...were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree of the University was to be bestowed upon so unworthy a person as himself. But the less his merit the greater their bounty, and thus could they measure what was due to them by their generosity to him. The name and fame of fair Harvard were not theirs alone, and he had always had his share, as an American citizen, in its honorable name and fame. He felt the honor that...
...thunderbolt fallen from a clear sky, or had Seventy-seven harmonized Class-Day difficulties, no greater surprise or consternation would have been felt in our College world than was experienced last Saturday evening on the announcement of the result of the first game with Yale. The record of our Nine has been so good this year that much was expected of it, perhaps too much. So, at least, think the Nine, who feel that they get little praise when they win, so much is it taken as a matter of course; but when they unfortunately lose, they are followed...
...more particularly recently, the Faculty have endeavored to treat students as if they were sufficiently mature to judge for themselves in matters which concerned them personally. All unnecessary and childish rules have long been dispensed with, and a liberty of action has been granted them as great if not greater than that accorded in any other institution of learning in this country or in England. For this the Faculty have deserved, and have received, the appreciation of students. The childish habits of hazing and rushing have been entirely dispensed with, and the general improvement in tone among members...
...been made in the hour of commencing recitations, we have entered upon a trial of a system which we think the majority of the students wished to have put in practice. The boating and ball men would like, doubtless, the extra hour in the afternoon, but by far the greater number of students prefer not to gain an hour in the morning, if at the same time an hour in the evening has to be sacrificed...