Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found who were willing to contribute for so worthy a purpose. It is but two or three weeks ago that the fund which amounts to $2000 was assured. It was collected in sums varying very much in size, but all given with the same feeling that Harvard may no longer have a dark library...
...books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have...
...talking seriously, after this uncontrollable mirth which the glad intelligence aroused in us, we must welcome this great improvement with the heartiest approval. It is only natural that Harvard could not for a great while longer show her face in the academic world while she had some 290,000 volumes stored away, inaccessible to everybody, as soon as the sun chose...
...extension of the Christmas vacation, are opinions which are daily gaining a firmer foothold in the minds of all undergraduates. In proportion as the number of students come to Harvard from the far West, the more does it seem that the faculty should acknowledge the fact by granting a longer duration of the Christmas recess. The faculties of other colleges, although suffering rather severely from conservatism, have, notwithstanding, had enough foresight, progress and liberality to recognize truths which have failed to receive attention here. The vacations given at Harvard have always been awarded grudgingly. The effect of this policy...
...Corwin: No answer has been received by time stipulated, so we consider the challenge no longer open...