Word: greater
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...together with the libraries of the various schools, make up a library surpassed by only two in America, the one at Washington and the Boston Public. In the last report of the examining committee before the Board of Overseers, it was recommended that the students in history should have greater facilities for reference to and the study of the historical portion of the library, which is known as the most complete in the country. The necessity of the occupying of the alcoves by those in the bibliographical department has long been a great hindrance to the instructors in matters...
WITH this number we enclose a programme of the Club races which take place to-morrow at eleven o'clock. The programme is printed on a card, rather than in the columns of the paper, for the greater convenience of our subscribers...
...course to the failures of the first years would have a chance to make up their deficiencies and leave college with a creditable record behind them. It would promote higher culture, and create more interest in studies, than at present; and under this system it seems as if a greater number would become students for life. With the present system, if a student thoughtlessly wastes the first years of his course, or is prevented by any cause from doing his best, there is no remedy. He has lost all chance while in college of distinguishing himself as a student...
...diversity and variety among the passengers was even greater than among the crew. For instance, I noticed a young man of prepossessing appearance who spoke English a little, and who I took to be a native of Southern Europe, but I soon found that he understood neither Italian, French, nor Spanish. "Perhaps," said I to myself," he is a German." I tried him on my limited stock of German, and found he did not know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke...
...very delightful college boat-races on the Charles River Saturday would have afforded still greater pleasure to the handsome array of the students' lady friends had some of the oarsmen been a little more attentive to their rowing costume. Rowing with bare backs, to say nothing of still more extensive nudity, is discountenanced by all leading boat-clubs of the country, as well as by Oxford and Cambridge, and there seems to be no reason why Harvard should be backward in this respect...