Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Riverside Boat Club, which has a boat-house a few miles up the Charles river, has decided to build a new and larger house on the same site...
...general increase has been made in the rent of college rooms at Yale. This is due to a necessity for a larger income. The annual income of Yale has always been small, but it is a doubtful expediency which seeks to augment it by an increase in term bills. One of Yale's boasts has been that her expenses were small compared with other prominent universities, but this claim can no longer be made.- New Haven Union...
Hour examinations are now in vogue. These irritations, more disagreeable than their semi-annual prototypes, have grown in fashion during this year and now bid fair to become a characteristic of all the larger and many of the less numerous courses. These examinations are out of accord with the tendency of study at Harvard, and mark retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work...
...Federal Constitution on the rights of States to enact Quarantine Laws? 3. History of the Law of Business Corporations prior to the year 1800. The successful essay will be printed in the Harvard Law Review. The object of the association in offering this prize is part of the larger object for which the association was first organized, to call the attention of the graduates to the work being done by the school, and to interest them in aiding the growth of the school by their individual efforts and influence. The president of the association is James C. Carter...
...been forced to, we are asked, "But what are you gentlemen in Cambridge doing to support this movement?" and now, after more than a week, we should have to answer, "The students of Harvard College have given $871" Moreover, $60 of this has been in sums larger than $5. Outside of seven persons, the college at large has contributed...