Word: lengthens
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...petition is being circulated among the Yale students, asking the faculty to lengthen the Christmas vacation from two to three weeks...
...adoption of it would be a boon to such of us as live in other cities than Boston. Those who live here all the year round can be at home on Easter Day. But it is not so with the others. If we remember aright, when the suggestion to lengthen the Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent has done well in agitating the matter thus early; for there will be plenty of time for the faculty to bring the question...
...Cambridge Toboggan Club held a meeting Monday evening for the election of officers and transaction of other business. Last year's officers were all re-elected, and it was voted to raise the chute and lengthen the slide...
...preparation. The consequence is that men are injured and the game is generally voted to be brutal. Such is not the case in the true game, in which the men, trained from day to day until their muscles are hardened, and their wind is in the finest condition, gradually lengthen the time and increase the bareness of the playing...
...more striking than the quiet seclusion of the town and college. One of our graduates has said that Harvard is in Cambridge, Amherst is in Amherst, but Williams is Williamstown, which remark probably tells more than appears at a single glance. In fall, as the evenings begin to lengthen and the old Berkshire hills begin to take on the brighter hues of autumn, it becomes a common question among the fellows how the long, dull weeks of the winter term are to be enlivened, every student believing with all his heart that "much study is a weariness of the flesh...