Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...something for their Alma Mater who goes with me. If the salary of such a trainer as is wanted could be raised by subscription for a couple of years, I think it very likely that the receipts from the new field would by that time be enough larger than the present receipts to pay for such a trainer's services. When such a result has been obtained I think it will be a great improvement over the old method of each man's paying his own training expenses. Within a few years at most I believe with Dr. Sargent that...
...readers that our friend of the Cynic is a little too easily frightened at the idea of a university he has created, still all will probably agree with him when he urges that instead of devoting our energies to the establishment of a national university, we should "build larger the universities that we have." If states and public-spirited citizens could only realize the fact that their money expended in the interests of some university or college already firmly established would be productive of much more good than if used to found a third rate school the cause of higher...
...student. Impressions are made to which the memory looks back through the whole future career. Friendships are formed which abide. Where a college exists by itself, students are thrown more together. These impressions are stronger. The friendships which are formed are more earnest. The college life makes a larger part of the life of the individual. All these are advantages which cannot be gainsaid, but they lead back to the question whether what is most to be considered is the pleasure of the student or the training which is to help his after life...
...tennis and in lacrosse, the college can reasonably afford to be well satisfied. The successes of the past will demand new successes in the future. A healthy feeling of confidence and hope must succeed the feeling of despondency that has often prevailed in the college. Thus with classes larger than ever before and with the cheerful spirit inspired by success, all those interests which occupy the leisure and constitute the recreation of the students may look to be well served...
...Butler, marched to Sanders where the usual exercises took place, At one o'clock the alumni meeting was held in Harvard Hall, at which William G. Russell of Boston was chosen president for the ensuing year. At the dinner of the alumni in Memorial Hall, the crowd was larger than ever before. The Hon. Joseph H. Choate, of New York presided. In the course of the speaking the election of overseers was announced as follows: Andrew P. Peabody, 580 votes, the highest number cast for one candidate; Francis M. Weld, 541; Solomon Lincoln, 499; Wm. C. Endicott, 375; Phillips Brooks...