Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Nearly three weeks have passed since work began at Princeton and we are now settled down to the ordinary routine of daily college life. In one or two of the branches, however, some of the students are enjoying a longer vacation than usual, owing to non-return of Professors Scott and Osborn from Europe. President Patton fulfils the highest expectations of his most ardent admirers and daily shows himself to be a man, progressive and thoughtfully alive to Princeton's interest. Dr. McCosh still retains a connection with the college by lecturing to the seniors in Metaphysics, and is engaged...
...whole, the crew have good control of the stroke, which is rather like that of '86 than '87, as the blades are carried back flat a little longer than last year. Of late they have got a better hold on the water at the beginning of the stroke, but the finish still falls short of being as clean as it should be. They have a magnificent swing, and at times good control of boat and slides. For the past two or three weeks a slower stroke-30 or 31 per minute-has been used than that which the crew rowed...
...Sunday they take a ten-mile walk instead of the regular row. The crew is an unusually good one, and our freshmen will have hard work to win the race, especially since the Columbia men have a great advantage in getting on the water earlier, and in having a longer time to train at New London. The crew is as follows: O. P. H. La Farge (bow), G. M. Anderson, G. W. Metcalf, J. S. Langthorn (captain), S. V. W. Lee, W. P. Robertson, P. E. Tuttle, A. G. Norrie (stroke), F. C. Cheeseborough, coxswain...
...Amherst has been entirely done away with. A series of written exercises given at the option of the professor at intervals throughout the term has been substituted. It is said that the new plan is highly satisfactory to the Amherst students. The habit of cramming before examinations is no longer possible...
Munkacsy's "Christ on Calvary" will be at the Old South only six days longer...