Word: largest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some of our discussions on the commons. These papers probably do not know how great an institution our Dining Association is, and how intimately the students are connected with its management. They do not know that the Hall, which in a year does a business as great as the largest hotel, is altogether in the hands of the students; consequently they cannot appreciate that its affairs make a suitable subject for the columns of an undergraduate organ. We must ask the pardon, therefore, of our editorial friends at Yale and elsewhere for making one more allusion to the Hall...
...will wear happily away, and when the lanterns begin to fall our guests will reluctantly depart from the scene of revelry. If a cruel fate decides the contest otherwise, the result will be - But no, we decline to consider this side of the question. We rejoice that "our latest, largest class" is after all not to "dip out like a penny candle," and we sincerely trust that the 22d of June will long be remembered by the Class as the peaceful ending of an unpleasant controversy, and the happy termination of four eventful years...
...COMPARISON of the number of volumes in some of the largest libraries of the country shows the Harvard Library to be the third. The following are the figures: Library of Congress, 300,000; Boston Public Library, 299,869; Harvard, 227,650; Mercantile Library of New York, 160,613; Astor Library, 152,446; and Yale College Library...
THURSDAY evening Professor Trowbridge delivered the fifth of the Natural History lectures at the Theatre on "Unseen Motion." The audience was the largest thus far, and the experiments were very interesting. We hope that the Natural History Society will give us another course next year...
...next graduating class at Bowdoin College will number forty. This class started with about eighty men. It was the largest class when entering that the college has had for years, and it will be one of the largest to graduate...