Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...less successful this year than in the past. The standard of excellence has always been high, and it will require more than average exertion to prevent it from falling. With so many events in prospective, the number of men who will appear daily at the gymnasium will doubtless be larger than at any other time in the year and will augur well for a good showing in the numerous contests in which we are to engage, both amongst ourselves and against common rivals. Our facilities for training and gymnasium work are unexcelled, and it is our duty, as it should...
K.Harvard, we think, agrees with all of the above except with the proposition to exclude Brown from the proposed new league of the larger colleges. It would be a measure of doubtful expediency...
...Glee Club has been reorganized and is now in working order. There is abundant material for a first class club this year and there seems to be a much larger lung power around college than at any previous period of our Alma Mater's history...
...connection with the suggestions that have been recently offered to the Sodality and Glee Club that in future concerts they make the experiment of reducing the price of admission in order to secure larger audiences, it may be stated that three years ago this experiment was tried but did not prove satisfactory. It was found that the slightly larger audiences that resulted did not practically bring about any increase in revenues for the societies. So the present scale of prices was thought better and has since been in force...
...position in the catalogue. The list of annual lecturers is smaller than usual, and the only name of importance contained is that of President Walker, whose subject is "The Tenure of Land." In the list of students there is not much change from last year, save in the larger space given to freshmen and special students. The number of students entering from other colleges is gratifyingly large. A student from Harpoot, Armenia, and a bachelor of laws from Cambridge University, England, appears among the specials. The summary shows, in exact numbers, 203 seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen...