Word: greatly
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...voted that each member should report at regular intervals the runs made by him, for the information of the other members of the club. This will doubtless prove a great convenience, as it will allow each rider to keep himself informed about the condition of the roads. The meeting broke up about eight o'clock, subject to the call of the officers...
GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR, who died last week at New York, was not a Harvard graduate, in spite of the fact that a great many papers have stated that...
...editions. It is useful to have enough copies of a play reserved to enable each of the candidates that are at work in the Library to have a book; but when an instructor puts every good edition on the reference shelves, many who wish to do work outside are greatly inconvenienced. Students should not be forced to work in the Library; there are many opportunities for working in one's own room, when going over to Gore Hall would be absurd. Again, many of the reserved books are such as one reads in spare moments in the evening...
...interest in athletics has indeed become great, and, in conjunction with rowing, bids fair to eclipse everything else at Harvard this year. Men are said to be training in unheard-of numbers, and the future of athletics here (until the craze dies out in, say, ten months' time) looks bright indeed. Fast men we have at all distances and at all gaits, and to the mile-runners and mile-walkers, especially, a capital chance is given of winning both fame and valuable cups, As may be recollected, this column, last fall, offered two cups of $25 each...
THERE are now nine universities in Russia. They cannot boast of great antiquity, for in Russia proper there was no university until the middle of the eighteenth century, when one was founded at Moscow by the Empress Elizabeth...