Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When I shall be singing no longer...
...longer I felt his cheering glow...
...further back than his own short career in College, he would have discovered that Lacrosse had obtained a firm foothold here before either tennis or cricket; that at first the field back of Divinity Hall was used for the game; then, when the planting of trees rendered this no longer serviceable, Jarvis and Holmes; and that, in seniority, Lacrosse ranked next to base ball and football...
...government, could instruct them in finance, political economy, and diplomacy, could fit them in manners and learning to become our worthy representatives abroad, our politics at home would become purer and more dignified, the cry for civil service reform would in a great measure cease, and we should no longer be disgraced abroad, as we have so often been, by men unfit to be our agents. Though Harvard cannot take the initiatory step in this direction, she can at least follow the good example which has been set her. By founding such a school as we have spoken...
...gentlemanly instincts - but for that most absurd of all reasons, just because it is the custom. Now precedent is all well enough, as long as the first conditions upon which the rule was founded have not altered. But in this case the conditions have altered. Our Freshmen are no longer boys; they aspire to be called men at once upon entering College. And surely there is nothing manly in putting aside all one's instincts of propriety and turning rowdy, - especially when such conduct compromises not merely one's self, but the whole College. The upper classes would indeed have...