Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might add much to the entertainment afforded by these concerts, we imagine, if in the more popular songs and the college songs a larger chorus might be formed to join in the singing. There are certainly a large enough number of good voices in college, and if some such plan were adopted a vastly larger amount of "college" enthusiasm would be aroused
Only about thirty Harvard men took enough interest in the result of the first game with Yale to go to New Haven Saturday with the nine. Whether a larger crowd of Harvard men would have materially affected the result of the game it is impossible to say, but the fact that the score was so close and that a base hit or two at several points in the game would have given us a good push toward the lead, indicates that an enthusiastic support would have been of the greatest value...
...first institution in America planned as a great university after the pattern of the famous universities of Europe. Harvard and Yale had not developed their university aspirations when the foundations of the New York University were laid. The institution has always labored under disadvantage; its top is larger than its foundation...
...soon as possible. According to this arrangement all members of the association will contribute in part to the marking of courts and will receive in return the right of using any court when unoccupied by its holders, while the holders of the courts will still pay the larger proportion in return for their privileges. The association desire to arrange matters as if the present rules had been in force from the beginning of this spring's tennis season. They will, therefore, refund to those joining the association all that they have paid for the marking of their courts this spring...
...this, the association has slight expenses, on account of belonging to the Inter-Collegiate Lawn Tennis Association and to the National Lawn Tennis Association. A small part of the income received from the entrance fees will also go to defraying part of the expenses of the spring tournament. The larger part, however, of the expenses of the tournament will be paid from the entrance fees (which have been reduced this spring from one dollar to fifty cents for each man entering). The association hope also to be able to pay, at least in part, the expenses of those who will...