Word: later
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Board of Directors at Memorial Hall have at length put the Sunday breakfast half an hour later. The general appreciation of the change was shown by the number of men who last Sunday took advantage of this privilege and appeared in the Hall between nine and half-past. Considering how dear to most of us is that extra "forty winks" on the only morning whose slumberous stillness is unbroken by either first or second bell, and considering that all private clubs have late breakfasts on Sunday, it seems strange that the Board have not been sooner compelled, by complaints...
ALMOST all discussion as to whether breakfast at Memorial Hall shall be later on Sunday than on other days has been in favor of the change. It is only in the meeting of the Directors that opposition to a late breakfast has been made. The Directors seem to have thought rather of prolonging the meal half an hour than of postponing it. On Sunday mornings less than ten men come to breakfast before half past eight. Last Sunday only three came before that hour. The Steward says that he would be perfectly willing to have the Sunday breakfast postponed half...
Captain Bancroft said that there was therefore now no reason why we should not row Yale. He moved that Yale's challenge be accepted, and that the race be rowed at New London. This motion was carried unanimously. The date of the race will be decided later. It will probably be about the last Friday in June...
...another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work. It is only in later years that the fine points of these authors are seen. In regard to Dante, no one who professes to any respectable degree of culture can afford to be ignorant of the writings of the great Florentine. Moliere has never suffered for want of hearers; but it is chiefly noticeable that the merely...
...HERRICK, '77, came in second in the one-hundred-yard dash at the Intercollegiate contests. The winning time was 10 1/2 seconds, and Mr. Herrick came in three tenths of a second later...