Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enough nines to make an interesting contest for first place. The games last year furnished a great deal of spirt and were enjoyed at least by the players. It is to be hoped that the management, if it intends to have the games this year, will not delay action longer...
...years ago there were a number of these old houses along North Avenue, but one by one they have been removed until this last representative remains. It will probably be allowed to stand a year or more longer as the new dormitory is to be built round and not on its site...
...them. The present method of marking is such that the averages cannot be obtained as exactly as a few years ago, but the conclusion is undoubtedly correct. Morgan's "University Oars" has settled the question for Oxford and Cambridge, that the men rowing in university races have a life longer and a health better than the average college graduate, and among them have been some of the highest double firsts and senior wranglers and some of the most noted men in intellectual pursuits in after life...
...degree than they would be shirked supposing there were no athletics at all. If the committee will take a deeper glance into the past twenty-five years and compare the two athletic systems they will probably see that, after all, the present system is the best. We hear no longer of "town and gown" fights, of practical jokes played upon professors and Cambridge citizens, and of other childish exhibitions of animal spirits. The men who train for athletic teams are, as a rule, the best students; they acquire habits of steadiness and sobriety which we cannot always look...
Captain McKean succeeded in getting out on the field about twenty candidates for the sophomore nine, yesterday afternoon. Butterworth, Fullerton and McLeod are trying for pitcher, and it is probable that McLeod will fill the position. Slade is the only candidate for catcher since Young is no longer in college. McKean will play first base, and McCoy, Faulkner, Wardner, Bates, Vilia, Rublee, Dexter, DeLong and Wheelwright are candidates for the other infield positions. Piper, Codman, Koshland, Hapgood, Barney and Sabine are trying for the out-field. After half an hour's fielding work the men practised batting. McLeod...