Word: larger
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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 no facilities for lodging such a multitude over night, or even...
OWING to the expectation of a better game than that with Amherst, and to milder weather, the game of last Saturday was attended by a much larger number of spectators. The Princeton team was composed of unusually heavy men, whose kicking in the practice before the game made it plain that Harvard was to have a hard battle. The game was the most exciting and best-contested one ever played in this vicinity...
...number of students is two thousand. Their rooms are considerably larger as a rule than those at Harvard or Yale, and having much fewer books in them appear more like sitting-rooms than studies. In a view that is given of the interior of a student's room the freedom from overcrowding, either with furniture or smaller objects, is especially noticeable...
...Cambridge Assemblies will take place on Thursday, December 5, January 9, January 30, and February 13, at the Armory on Brattle Square; this hall is far better than either the Lyceum or Union, being larger than the one and more neatly and elegantly fitted up than the other...
...elective pamphlet as open to him. If the number in some of the electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what is the need of any limitation. The numbers are not so large but that the use of some larger recitation-room, or the formation of another division, would solve the problem. A little less reluctance, too, on the part of some instructors to have a few more examination-books to look over would make matters better...