Word: greater
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HOOPER, the Treasurer of the University, thinks the College will not have money enough to get through the year with, without running into debt. The number of students in the College this year is less than last, and the expenses of the College are greater. What is needed is money given out and out, and not legacies for buildings...
...Acta has published several papers on "Intercollegiate Slang," which are the most interesting contributions that we have seen in a college paper for some time. They will be finished next week, when we hope to speak of them at greater length...
...will be seen that in two events our best previous records were surpassed. The sports were, in the main, creditable, but there were not as many new contestants drawn out as could have been wished. To be sure, the time for training in the autumn is short, and the greater attractions of football and rowing take away some men's attention from the Athletic meetings; but this cannot wholly explain the poor exhibition made by some of the contestants. When we take into consideration the number of men in the University, it does not seem too sanguine to expect that...
...summer school seems to have done good work. In Botany there were 35 students; in Chemistry, 29; and in Geology, 7. The books in all the libraries have increased from 232,000 to 248,000. Evening readings are assuming yearly a greater importance. Besides Scientific German, readings are to be given, and comments made, in French, German, Spanish, and Italian, without translating...
...most part, at least) lie within range of all voices. It is absurd to suppose that the occupants of the pews cannot sing, since it is from among them that the choir was organized, and since on any Class Day, a part only of them produce a greater volume of vocal sound than has been heard in Chapel within our recollection. Furthermore, all must and do admit that the service would be made much pleasanter by a general participation in the singing. Can it be that anything so contemptible as the fear of not doing the "proper thing" can keep...