Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laboratory courses, the expenses for running the laboratory, such as gas, water, salaries of janitors, etc., are much larger than the expense incurred in carrying on a course in any other part of the college. The corporation, therefore, thought it necessary to charge the student who elects a laboratory course more than one who takes any other course. Just so much money is allowed the laboratory for running expenses as is deemed sufficient, according to the cost of running other buildings in the university. The fee of $15 which is charged each year is to cover the cost of reagents...
...attendance during the first year was much larger than during the second, which the report says "was to be expected, since opportunities for systematic study at Athens under skilled direction was then offered for the first time to American students, and immediately attracted to the school pupils who have subsequently returned to other parts of Europe and to America for the completion of their studies. There is good reason to believe that a number of competent students will be in attendance at the school during the coming year...
...Yale News is in error, we think, when it ascribes to us a larger board than it possesses. It is the custom of this paper, at least, to publish in its list of retiring editors all those who have been connected with the paper during the half year previous, and this custom, of course, swells the number of editors to a considerable degree. In reality, our editorial board has consisted of nine literary editors who have done the entire work of writing the paper, while for the News there are ten men who perform the same work, according to their...
...members of the nines. Never has greater enthusiasm concerning anything been exhibited at Columbia than in regard to base-ball during the past spring, and, as events would tend to show, never has enthusiasm so quickly commenced to pass away. Although the association comprises a large number of members, larger, in fact, than any other, it has already been compelled to go into debt. [Spectator...
...games were held on the Polo Grounds, as being more convenient and likely to draw larger audiences. They are situated on 110th street and Fifth avenue. "The path is one-third of a mile in circuit, and in its best days was a fine track. As it is surrendered a almost exclusively to base-ball, the track is almost entirely neglected. At the time Myers ran his wonderful 600 and 1,000 year races on it, the course was well kept. Since then, it has 'gone to the dogs; ' for running, poor, and for walking, abominable. The American...