Word: larger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coxcombs whom nature meant but fools." We regret that we are so small, and must acknowledge that if we were cross, we ought to be whipped; but at the same time, in order not to have those dreadful epithets "little" and "cross" applied to us by a paper no larger than our own, we will confess that the Chronicle is the best example of Western College journalism we have seen. But we must insist on our old opinion that the tone of that journalism is very...
...voting with Yale with as much 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...
...committee had provided for what they considered an extraordinary number of plates; but fifteen or twenty more names having been handed in at the last moment, it became unfortunately necessary to provide for them in an adjoining room. These, however, later in the evening, were also accommodated in the larger room, and nothing remained to mar the complete enjoyment of the occasion...
Giving the per cent of candidates not admitted to Harvard for the years 1870, 1871, and 1872, he says, "This large number rejected at Harvard only shows that the examination there was rigid, while the larger number rejected at Yale only shows, of course, that the candidates examined at Yale were more poorly prepared"; and he furthermore adds, "A young man" [a single example only is cited] "was refused admission to the Sophomore class at Yale for deficiency of preparation. He went directly to Harvard College, offered himself as a candidate for the Junior class there, and was admitted." There...
...University Echo, Oakland, California, in the language of the honest miner, appears to have seen itself and gone four pages better; or, on second thoughts, suppose we say larger! It has a good deal of news, a superabundance of poetry, and one very entertaining article on "Roads and Railroads," some portions of which may be useful to our readers. "From numerous widely extended and highly scientific observations on the subject, we deduce the following laws...