Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annex opened nearly six years ago, with 27 students, and the number has steadily increased, until now there are over 50, with prospects of a still larger number next year. The first class was graduated in 1883, and the graduates found little difficulty in securing excellent positions as teachers in various schools and colleges. Miss Gregory is a professor of History in Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia; Miss Byrd is a professor of Mathematics at Carleton College, Minnesota, and had charge of the Time Service at the observatory, when changes were made in the standard time last year...
...dise for the running high kick, much larger than the one used last year has been secured for the gymnasium...
...being rigid avoids two democratic dangers, disrespect for a minority and for fixed rules. Is there a progress from rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better be effected by a British Statute. The benefits of a flexible constitution, a more developed common law, temperate habits of compromise, etc., are shared...
...retiring and rather eccentric nature. In that year he surprised everyone by making over his entire fortune to a board of trustees to be expended for public and scientifle purposes. The object to which he devoted the large sum, $700,000, was for the construction of a telescope "larger and more powerful than any ever made before," together with an observatory which should be connected with...
Shortly after seven o'clock, Prof. Ames, the President of the society, took the chair, and said it was with regret he was obliged to state that the expenses of the society were larger than the business. Two years ago, a superintendent had been engaged for three years, at a salary of $1200 per annum, to run the business of the society, as it was greatly in need at that time of an active manager. This was a great expense ; and now room rent has to be added to it, as after this year the society cannot occupy its preset...