Word: greater
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regularity as if it had been arranged beforehand. This furnishes a sequel to the nomination of officers. Harvard energetically opposed all these amendments, taking the honorable and magnanimous ground that if the colleges were allowed to take students from their different schools, the larger colleges would have a still greater advantage over the smaller than they now have. A decrease of enthusiasm and competition would result, and the true interests of the association would be subverted. But if they were allowed to do so all the schools must be allowed, and the race made one of University against University...
...Finally, a catalogue should not contain a view of the college buildings and grounds, as they are perhaps to be. We have seen on a frontispiece to the catalogue, or on a heading to letters, a stately edifice, situated in the midst of charming grounds, designated - University, the greater part of which we knew to be only projected. This may indicate only a sanguine temperament, but it is also susceptible of another interpretation...
...teachers, perhaps professors, or professional men. They are successful, often famous, in their several departments; but it can never be said of any one of them whether, under a different kind of undergraduate discipline, his mental faculties might not have received a higher cultivation, thus rendering him capable of greater advancement in after life. The Intercollegiate Scholarship will not be a sure test. It will not follow that the system of the college sending the winning candidate in any particular year is all right, and that the others are all wrong; but if the prize is taken for many successive...
...JOHN RUSKIN has been spending the greater portion of his life in endeavoring to free the world from an old idea, that works of art should be admired for their own apparent power, for the force with which they strike the observer. In place of this notion, he has labored to introduce a taste for art measured by definite rules and lines...
...second is to arrange, if possible, a tournament at Springfield, in which all the colleges will take part, on or about the time of the regatta. It is thought that such a course would tend to increase the interest in the matches, and the expenses would not be greater than those attending the first plan, while the receipts would be much larger. In this case the Nine would have to remain in Cambridge for two or three weeks after the close of College, when a fine opportunity for practice would be obtained...