Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...provisional list of commencement parts is larger this year than last, and there has been a steady increase in the number of men gaining this distinction ever since the adoption of the election system. Unless the rules are changed, we may in time expect to have the whole of each senior class on the list...
...play. This makes men look around for some other recreation and exercise, and I feel sure that many men would be glad of the chance which the formation of a Gun Club will offer. It would, too, in addition to present advantages, enable the students of Harvard to get larger bags of birds, and to kill more moose, deer, bear, etc., during the summer months...
...sent, not so much for the sake merely of the studies as for the influences and advantages of college life. They are sent here to get the advantage of the training and preparation that college, in its capacity of a world in miniature, affords, for the struggle in the larger world. But college life without dormitory life, with the students scattered around among the townspeople, is a very different affair, deprived of many of its best characteristics. Let us have a new dormitory soon, then, a gift if possible ; if not, an investment of university funds...
...university, largely on account of the much-talk-of "Harvard indifference." But in spite of the many difficulties attending its foundation it has attained a remarkable degree of success and has become at last firmly established as one of the permanent institutions of the college. The membership is larger than ever before and numbers almost half of the university. It does a very large trade, requiring little or no capital, and working with the very smallest margins. The success of our own institution has aroused the desire in other colleges to establish a similar society. At Yale, Princeton...
...this sort lies in the continually enlarging number of Harvard graduates who settle in the West and South and who exert their influence directly and indirectly towards increasing the representation of their localties among the students of the college. The Harvard clubs now firmly established in all the larger cities of the country exercise a very considerable influence of this sort. But it is open to the students themselves even before they go forth from the college as graduates and take their positions in the world to exert an influence in drawing students to the college. No influence...