Word: longer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WARBURTON, who lately lowered the ten-mile amateur record in England, is willing to take pound 300 to pound 30, that he beats the record at ten, twenty, and thirty miles, commencing with the longer distances...
...Longer the bells of Languedoc...
...conditioned student, in order to make up such condition, to attend the regular exercise in the corresponding course of study for that year has been modified by making attendance voluntary. The minimum mark for a student who has been absent from the regular exercise in any study is no longer raised on account of such absence...
...Penalties" the most careful attention should be given by undergraduates, both because it will be for their own good, and because it will save much trouble at the office. "Warnings" have taken the place of "Private Admonitions," and "Admonitions" of "Public Admonitions," while "Parietal Admonitions" are no longer in the list to enforce discipline. The use of the word "absence" is rather arbitrary, and for that very reason deserves to be remarked. "Absence from a recitation" is taken as the unit of censure by which all failures, enumerated in section 30, to perform duties, are measured. All failures to attend...
...energetic action. Our success in the past three races must not be taken as a criterion of success in the future. We have probably lost all but one of our last year's crew, and men who have been long associated with our boating interests are now no longer connected with the University. We have plenty of good raw material; but Yale's experience has testified that the moulding of raw material into an efficient crew is no easy task. Such a task is ours this year. Captain Trimble occupies a more difficult position than has been held...