Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Want of practice and training seemed to be the chief faults in the Harvard team, things which will be remedied before the regular spring games are played, but which it has been impossible to overcome this fall because of the short time for preparation, the Montreals being unwilling to longer put off their tour through the United States. Judging from the material which has showed up this fall, there is a prospect of making up a good team for next spring to compete for the college championship. Among the new men who played in the game on Saturday were Howes...
...interest. Many of the best tennis players yet remain in college, while the freshman class presents several men who are already well known as players of exceptional ability. Now that the courts have been put in such perfect condition, the announcement of the arrangements for the tournament should no longer be delayed. Some time must necessarily elapse before all details can be arranged. This delay occurring later will deprive the tournament of much of its interest by forcing it to take place at a time when the college work will have become much more onerous than at present. The Tennis...
...class day has become an institution of equal importance with the stately and scholastic day of gowns,- commencement. The General Court no longer feast beneath the classic shades, they have given place to their fair daughters. Nor is it upon the "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples" that the daughters feast. The "sober and God-fearing fashion" has passed into a round of jollity that shames the sober bachelor graduates who wander about aimlessly seeking they know not what, and territies papa and mamma in their watch-towers of observation with its desperate flirtation...
...left as a token of respect for their grand sacrifice, seems incredible. But such is the case. The act may have been done thoughtlessly, and doubtless was, in the zeal to obtain trophies for the walls of the students' rooms; but thoughtlessness when carried to such extremes is no longer excusable. The names of three students, in whose possession these flags have been seen, are known to the authorities, and will be made public unless the flags are returned to the Grand Army Post before Friday morning. They can be left at janitors' rooms of Stoughton, Thayer or Weld...
...social order was a vase "not large at the bottom, rising in a graceful curve till the area of its circle is four times as large as it was where it began, and then growing smaller again to a second circle at the top. It is no longer a pyramid, with its broad foundation in the mud and its solitary apex...