Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present there is a crisis in England, in Greece, in the United States. England is now brought face to face with the ever-occurring problem of government for Ireland. A ministry of but a few months' life has fallen; the incoming ministry promises to last but little longer. It seems as if the question of Home Rule must now be settled. The Irish are resolute and under able leaders. The English are in a quandary. Plucky Greece is asserting some of her old time independence. She will resist the encroachments of Turkey, and has politely informed the powers of Europe...
...Dyer's edition of the 'Apology of Socrates.' Such a work as Professor Dyer's is a credit, not only to its editor, but to our university. It is the best possible answer to those who insist that Greek is going to the dogs here, because it is no longer required in course. It is further an excellent means to keep Greek from going to the dogs. A good text-book in the hands of a good teacher will do more than a dozen requirements to get thorough and valuable work in any department...
...friends of the new learning could desire that the old is not after all exclusively the "true." Care was taken to recall the old position of Harvard in the question of classics, and to draw the conclusion so natural to a man of Yale that, because Harvard no longer occupies her old position she is per se in a wrong position. The claim was again advanced that Yale is the national college, and as such stands foremost among all the colleges in this land. Dr. Porter spoke at some length on the religious influence of Yale, and declared that everywhere...
Among some of the students, and among many of the outside newspapers, there exists a grave mistake in regard to the aim of the petition. We do not ask that prayers be abolished, but merely that we no longer be compelled to attend them...
...more than one of the fifty or more articles which are contained in a volume, and this could easily be done in an hour. But a man if allowed to keep out a book a month, will be in no hurry to return it even if he has no longer a use for it. Several cases of great inconvenience and annoyance under the present system have recently come to our attention...