Word: greater
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make four! Price only five cents! Many other popular fallacies refuted at equally low rates!" I noticed one peculiarity about this booth. It was higher than the rest, and had an upper story in the gallery. This upper story I found was devoted to Ethics, and seemed to attract greater crowds than the lower part of the booth...
...annual University race between the two old colleges is rowed at New London on the last Friday afternoon of June, a greater number of the people who are interested in the competition can attend it - and at a far less sacrifice of money, time, and comfort - than could attend it at any other place. Last summer's crowd was much larger than any which had previously assembled on any similar occasion in America, and it is fair to presume that if next June's crews are believed to be evenly matched, the attendance will be doubled. But New London offers...
...secure from interruption, and many students find it far more convenient to work there than in their rooms. Again, those of us who want to read the magazines before they fall into the clutches of the professors and are taken from us for an indefinite time, would have a greater chance of seeing them; and we should be somewhat better protected against those few students who reach the Library early in the afternoon, select all the most desirable periodicals, pile them upon the table and proceed to read them at their leisure. Evening access to the reading-room...
...first of the series of lectures arranged by the S. Paul's Society was given last Tuesday evening by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin H. Paddock, in Christ Church. The attendance was large, and the number of students there was noticeably greater than on former occasions of the same kind. The next lecture of the course is to be given next Tuesday evening, at the same time and place, by the Rev. E. A. Washburn, Rector of Calvary Church, New York...
...debt of the Dining Hall Association was, on the 31st of August last, $41,900.91, - a serious burden, which it will require many years to remove. The prevailing high price of board at private houses is mainly due to the greater demands made by students who are accustomed to live luxuriously at home...