Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of men who prefer to stay in Cambridge rather than "go down for the holidays," as our English undergraduate cousins say, is growing larger every year. This year about an even hundred spent the vacation at college, and some of the occurrences of the period may interest the men who went home for their recess...
...system of taking attendance in the larger courses in college is certainly a great improvement on the old system of calling the roll and having "spotters." With a hundred names or more on the list, the calling of the roll is a long and tiresome ordeal for both instructor and student. But the new system, that of having the men sign their names on slips of paper at each recitation, is certainly a relief to the instructors and, we may well suppose, not at all disagreeable to the monitors...
...Presentation of Honors of '86, the homely man failed to appear, so a committee was sent after him. He was found in his room but no inducement could bring him out, for, said he, "even if I am homely, I am strong, and you will need a larger crowd than this to take one to the meeting." The exercises had to go on without him, and the next thing was the presentation of the cradle, which was given to a man who came to the college green and countrified and suddenly blossomed out into the toughest man in the class...
...well known fact that the larger the college, the more numerous its corps of instructors, the broader its curriculum, and in brief the nearer it approximates to a university, the greater becomes the estrangement between instructors and students. It is here that the smaller colleges have the advantage of us, and it is an advantage of no mean importance. Many a parent has been induced to sent his boys to colleges which in every other respect are inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could...
...large measure to the excellent training administered by Mr. Forchheimer, who is apparently quite at home in the mysteries of an orchestral score, still it is evident that the standard of individual excellence is much higher than it has been in former years, and that the orchestra contains a larger number of performers of high merit, who give it a certainty and solidity which has not always been noticeable. It is also a very gratifying fact that it has not been necessary to have any professionals to play some of the more unusual instruments as has heretofore been the case...