Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...collect and publish from time to time material relating to dialects. This material will be collected by the executive committee working through its assistants located in different parts of the country. To accomplish this successfully the circular sent out by the committee says: "It is desired to interest a larger number of persons, so as to investigate the natural and unstudied speech of the people in many different localities. School teachers and clergymen in somewhat isolated communities. or students during their vacation, are in an especially favorable position to render valuable assistance to the work. The society will develop...
...attachment. The instrument was called a "photometer." There was a companion telescope, also horizontal, combined with it for observing the reflected image of the polar star. The same instrumental adaptations were made for the subsequent or second series. This long experience gave confidence in incurring the expense of the larger under-taking now brought to perfection...
...about three inches high and are of solid silver. On the front are engraved the name of the player, his position and the words "Yale, '92, 4; Harvard, '92, 36." The choice was given to the members of the eleven to have either the small solid silver cups or larger ones of plated ware. The majority decided upon the smaller ones and these mementos will probably prove to be more satisfactory than any others which could have been purchased for the same amount of money. Ninety-two had such a large surplus at the end of the season that...
...spoken in his last lecture of the superstructure on which the Parthenoon stood, but which was evidently intended for a much larger building. The Parthenon as erected upon the foundation was two hundred and twenty-eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
...formation of an Interscholastic Athletic Association among the larger preparatory schools of New England is well worthy of encouragement. Such an association will undoubtedly help track athletics in the colleges in a large degree, aside from the fact of its engendering competition and excellence in that branch of athletics in the schools...