Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial comment on the recent performance in the Harvard Union, because we believed the fight to be a factional one and therefore not a fit subject for the expression of opinion on the part of a college paper, but later developments have made silence on our part no longer possible...
...faithfully. Surely we have not given our freshmen nine the credit that is its due. Some one who cherishes a petty grudge against Mr. Vila, the captain, suggests that the men in the nine have ceased to pay the slightest regard to training, and positively asserts that they no longer take regular practice but go out in small groups and stand around Jarvis, gossip and look pretty; that the captain goes out only once and awhile, at such times as do not interfere with his social engagements. We would inform this meddler. Why should he question the actions...
...farce of a contest, which is presumably for a cup but in reality is for the engraving of the names of winners upon a cup which is no longer open to competition, takes place. The "Mott Haven cup" belongs to Harvard; yet Yale, Princeton and other colleges have been working hard that the names of their best athletes may appear as winners upon the trophy which was won by our athletes last year...
...Greek department the absence of Professors Croswell and Dyer will be felt severely. Courses A and E appear without any instructor, while D and 4 have been removed from the list; in course C, Demosthenes no longer will be studied; Dr. Fowler has been given Course 1 and Professor Wright - the new instructor - Course & Greek Composition; Mr. Parker will conduct 5 in place of Professor White; Course 7, now Professor Dyer's, is to be given to Professor Wright; Course 9 as it was before this year has been inserted, while 9 of this year - Greek composition with Professor Dyer...
When the crew went on the water they rowed a very jerky stroke, catching hard and rowing out very short. Lately, however, under the coaching of Mr. Brooks, '87, they have been doing much better work, the catch being much easier, and the entire stroke longer and smoother. There are, however, a number of individual faults, a few of which are as follows...