Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...however, we hope to have ready a criticism of them as well as of the university crew. The three upper class crews have about the same number of experienced men, and stand equally good chances of winning the race. The seniors are naturally the favorites as they have had longer experience, and, perhaps, because it has become customary of late years for the senior crew to win the class races. Moreover, as this is the last opportunity for eighty-five to retrieve her bedimmed rowing record, it is expected that her crew will put forth every possible effort to take...
...account of the long continuance of cold weather which prevented the ice from breaking up until the last days of March, the class crews were confined to the gymnasium three weeks longer than usual, and are consequently behind in their work upon the river. This delay in getting out the boats, together with the nearness of the class races, the second of May, gives the crews a very short time for preparation. Five weeks is hardly long enough to learn the difficult art of watermanship. It cannot, therefore, be expected that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection...
...Saturday evening the freshmen began to assemble in great numbers in and around the quadrangle to celebrate their tug-of-war victory. The overture of the improvised orchestra, composed of fishhorns, policeman's rattles, cow bells, etc., lasted for a half hour or more. After they could shout no longer by reason of hoarseness and loss of wind caused by the blowing of their infernal horns, the freshmen began to raid grocers' back-yards for fuel for a bonfire. A hugh pile was soon collected in front of University, and quickly kindled. As soon, however, as the wood was fairly...
...government, of which the senate is merely a phase, was at first as thoroughly misunderstood at Amherst as it has been since throughout the college world, and the senate shared the same disapprobation and ridicule. The old disfavor is, of course, rapidly dying out; the senate is no longer expected to accomplish impossible things, and depreciated because it does...
...happens, the real strength of the senate remains for the future to test; and the longer a general quiescence delays this, the more Amherst is to be congratulated. The past has proved, however, that the senate is entirely practicable; the judgments, while few, have not been made hastily, nor to the detriment of the college; the senate has not proved more lenient than the faculty; the latter have been entirely satisfied with its workings; and the growing popularity of the plan at Amherst and at other colleges is a good omen for the success and an increase in the powers...