Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after its foundation, classical studies were alone fursued, but mathematics were added in 1837, and modern languages twenty-four years later. The old buildings were occupied until the beginning of this century, when no ones were erected, together with a chapel. The chapel has since been replaced by a larger and finer edifice, and lately the fine Vaughan library and a school hospital have been built. Buron was a graduate of this school; also Peel, Canning, Sheridan, and many other men of note, although Eton bears the palm for educating remarkable...
...Frost read last evening in Sever Hall, to a larger audience than could be expected on so unfavorable a night, his prize essay on "The Political Career of Daniel Webster." Mr. Frost and Mr. Kittredge, '82, are the only undergraduates in several years who have received the full Bowdoin prize...
...should have stated before now that the Historicl Society is not to blame for not giving its lectures in a larger hall so as to accommodate all who may wish to hear them. The college authorities, we understand, are not willing to give the society the free use of Sanders theatre, and since its membership is limited, it is not able to bear the extra expense of hiring the larger hall...
There is not a professor in Harvard College who gets a larger salary than $5,000 a year. I want to say this in New York, where, if anywhere in the world, people understand how much and how little can be bought with $5,000 a year. There is but one professor in the service of the college who receives $5,000 a year, and the men who are at the head of our mathematical department, our classical department, modern language department and our scientific departments do not receive a salary of more than $4,000. These are facts that...
...corporation, the overseers, the Law School, and the Medical School and the various departments of the college, each says its word to the Divinity School. This step of the Divinity School is an example worth imitating. It is good for the teachers, because it leads them to discuss the larger relations of their special subjects; and it is good for the students, because they hear the best advice of a great variety of specialists addressed for once to practical problems and needs...