Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each freshman class used, on entering, to studiously keep away from the gymnasium, either from bashfulness or because the men failed to appreciate its advantages, but this order of things has now become changed, as is shown by a glance at the apparatus on any afternoon. In fact, the larger amount of exercise seems to be done by the two lower classes. This is a most gratifying result, and the more so because there is no system of compulsory gymnastics in vogue among us, as is the case at many other colleges. With the perfect appliances and convenient arrangements...
Then let this fall be made remarkable by a larger number of scratch games than ever, and let the numerous societies and club-tables get their men to work as soon as possible, for the season is fast slipping by, and it will be but a short time before the coming of our gentle Cambridge winter drives us into the gymnasium for existence...
Lehigh has a freshman class of 132 almost double the number which entered that college three years ago. Each class has been larger than the preceding one since that time...
...limits of the college, that the grass may have a chance to grow. The college grounds far exceed those of Harvard in extent and include a lake and adjacent pond. The buildings while few in numbers, greatly surpass both in appointment and convenience those of our Alma Mater. The larger part of the college work is carried on within one large building which is fitted up in a style which is simply startling to one accustomed to the hard benches and bare walls of his own college. The dormitory system pursued, in many respects, resemble that in vogue at Harvard...
Among the exchanges which have already come, the Yale News attracts attention by its increased size and improved appearance. Yale undergraduate life is waking up to the importance of having a larger amount of new each day, and the editors seem intent on satisfying them. The paper has been increased from a three to a four-column sheet, and is now slightly larger in size than the CRIMSON, but contains about the same amount of reading matter as our paper. The quality of the matter has also improved, and we congratulate the Yale men on the new state of affairs...