Word: greater
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said that only regular customers can expect to obtain especial favors, and that students are not included in this class. That is all true enough, only it is not an especial favor that is demanded, but our rights. We give the bank an amount of money greater than we receive, and this tax then is demanded as a payment for changing it into a more convenient form, just like making a charge for changing a twenty-dollar bill. This is probably the most open fraud we suffer, and it may be of service to some students to know that...
...business of a man's life is happiness, which, if not equivalent to, is at least entirely dependent on, success. The attainment of some final object, whatever it is, is thus the great requisite in his life; and, success being insured, the higher the object he seeks, the greater his happiness, it being always kept in mind that no failure is allowed, unless he would feel that he has lived in vain. The moral is not far to seek; rid yourself, as far as possible, of all uneasy desires for what is beyond your reach, and direct all your endeavors...
...Corporation promised that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish women, and the prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters...
...unavailable while we dine at one, for it must be injurious to pull an oar or swing a bat so soon after eating. To exercise later is to be on the river or at Jarvis at sunset, and this in October is far from healthy. Our athletic interests are greater than formerly, and are still on the increase. They certainly deserve consideration in the particular of which we are speaking. That the scholar also would be materially benefited by this change of hour, it is hardly necessary to add. "A full soul loatheth the honeycomb," and the honeycomb here...
...that existed among our distant Aryan forefathers. In the latter, each individual found a place allotted him which he was expected to fill with fidelity and loyalty, and in which, "while true to his position, each had his function and his support." In the society of our day much greater energy is called forth in the individual; his position is more manly, more independent, but at the same time more unprotected. Labor and capital, united in a patriarchal system, are regarded as opposed to each other in our own, and the only attempt at an organization is that...