Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessity of not keeping away the children of religious parents; the propriety of making the students get up early; the utility of a daily roll-call; or even the satisfaction of seeing the students gathered all in one room. The function of chapel is no longer devotional; neither the college authorities nor the students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form of beginning work; there is no feeling in the students that it is a religious act to attend prayers. Such attendance is a matter of discipline...
...note-books in N. H. 3 may be handed in for several days longer...
Last fall the "Monthly" was started for the purpose of printing the "strongest and soberest undergraduate thought." Its articles are longer than the "Advocate's;" and while not neglecting good stories and verse, it gives more attention to essays and reviews. It is a very natural outcome of our work here. We indeed try to think steadily and gravely, and we need some magazines to publish the longer and soberer articles which are the result of such thought. Such pieces the "Advocate" often cannot print...
...Cambridge there is at some colleges, a longer term allowed before a man must go in for the first of the three university examinations, but otherwise the general tenor of the system is similar. Fear of encroaching too much on your space prevents me from entering into many details which might be of interest, especially as to the papers set at the various examinations, of which I regularly receive copies...
...then will say that Harvard poets are not different from other poets? They sing longer, louder, and better than the poets of other colleges. They say more, if they mean less, than other writers of their stamp. They mark distinctly a growing element in Harvard culture. Indigestion and good health are as clearly marked in Harvard verse as in the writings of a Lucy Larcom or a Carlyle. Poetry is one means open to us for the expression of our better thoughts. The verse in which we speak takes on a new significance, expresses a deeper power, as we grow...