Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...responsibility increases and it becomes more necessary to weigh the pros and cons in each decision. There can be no doubt that it is just here that the enlargement of the elective pamphlet it apt to bring about the best results. Behind the obvious advantage of having a larger range of subjects included in the instruction given, there lies that deeper advantage of making men more careful and deliberate in the choice of their courses. This force is brought to bear most cogently on the man who is taking what is known as a "general course" in college...
...American readers will welcome the translation of Dr. von Hoist's 'Constitutional Law of the United States of America' (Chicago: Callaghan & Co.). The author apologizes for consenting to its appearance in this country. It is, he says, but a sketch, written as part of a larger book for German readers - Marquardsen's 'Handbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts.' - He was limited, moreover, to a very inadequate space, and had to compress his material unduly, and wholly to throw out much; and 'my only literary resources were my private library and the notes previously taken in the British Museum and American libraries.' These...
...goodly number of spectators gathered on Jarvis yesterday afternoon to see Eighty-seven play her second game with Ninety and beat her by a score of 12 to 9 after a ten inning game. Eighty-seven proved stronger at the bat than Ninety, making two more hits and a larger total than the latter. The battery of the former was also more steady and effective. The fielding of the freshmen however was excellent, making as they did but four errors, the weak spot of the nine, being as in all other games, its battery. Kielty pitched and Vila caught...
...number of applications filed by the students is likely to be larger than the number of openings of the kind desired, the secretary will doubtless be glad to receive any kind of offer from those wishing to employ young men during the three summer months. Boston Post...
...taking, as a Harvard man himself, a deep and daily interest all the men as a whole. It cannot be indifference, for the actual count, day after day, proves that the percentage of men, as regards the total enrollment of the college, who are present in chapel, is larger than that of the populace of our large cities. Still, were Dr. Brooks so widely known throughout our country and abroad, to visit us from a far distant city, the chapel would be crowded each morning. Does it not look like "A prophet, etc,' again? What is the cause of this...