Word: greater
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...thought we had stepped into and were enjoying a greater share of pleasure than could be possible outside of college halls. Even when summoned week after week to attend examinations, our pleasant vision did not vanish. We never realized that the atmosphere of the Dean's office was less favorable to us than to others, although our petitions were often not granted. If answers to our questions were somewhat brief, or there was any lack of fervor in our welcome, it was attributed to the attention necessarily due to matters of importance decided there, thus leaving no time...
...keep the mind from falling into its primitive weakness, a tutor's services are doubtless as efficient as any could be. But if rapid progress in clear and determinate knowledge is desired, if universal and indisputable truths are sought instead of partial and half-tested theories, an experience greater than a tutor's becomes necessary...
...special probation is deprived of one third of the privileges granted others. It is not sufficient that the offending one reforms, he must even reach a standard of excellence, higher than that which is required of his associates, and this is hardly probable. We do not believe that the greater one's task is the less time it will take to perform it, or in giving to an overworked man more work in order to rest...
...some law could be discovered to prevent its snowing, this rule would probably have greater force. Those who are rash enough to engage in the popular game of pitching pennies must now pay for their temerity by receiving publics and the like. As to the latter part of the rule, that is evidently meant for sarcasm, and we pass...
...been so poor, it would have been possible, perhaps, to have appointed a new instructor, after the necessary withdrawal of the one first selected, and so have prevented the disappointment which we have suffered. But the lamentable poverty of our institution is a sufficient excuse for this, or even greater wrongs...