Word: larger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order of the Education Department the school-books in French government schools are to be printed in larger type, on account of the recent great increase in shortsightedness...
Since my last letter we had our annual fall games. They were held at the Manhattan Athletic Club grounds. The reasons given for holding them there instead of at Mott Haven was that the Athletic Association desired larger audience than there have been for the last few years. The venture was successful, and it is no exaggeration to say that there were as many as fifty spectators on the grounds. More than half of them were competitors, while the other half were marshals and judges of walking. The attendance of the fair ones was unusually large, and it must have...
...touch the ball with their hands; the body-checking was about the same, a little more vigorous perhaps; when a goal was made the ball was sent back to be thrown up in the centre of the field. On the other hand, the number of players was much larger then than now, sometimes as many as three hundred; the distance between the goals was usually 500 or 600 yards. In those early days the exercise was thought to be a "severe and tempting one." The players wore little clothing beside the breech-cloth. The night before a game was devoted...
...nevertheless, we do not expect to see co-education introduced at Harvard, although we confidently look to see many privileges accorded to the students of the annex in the near future, which have hitherto been withheld. There are numerous courses conducted by means of lectures in some of the larger recitation rooms which might, with propriety, be thrown open to them, and they could also be encouraged to use the library more by having books reserved for them in their different courses. We mention these only as examples of reform which may be looked for. But, as for co-education...
...three instead of two games with each other. The great distance between Dartmouth at the north and Princeton in the south is one among the numerous arguments used. To us it seems that it would not only make the base - ball games more interesting for the three or four larger colleges, but it would enable Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams, and perhaps one or two others to have a series of championship games which would certainly be more interesting for them than the present arrangement...